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FROM PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... evidently unable to appreciate the difference' between a departure from the Gold Standard with the Budget m a condition or assured solvency , and being pushed off the Gold Standard while national finance under the management of their leaders was still in ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 989 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Gold Standard and Foreign Travel

... Gold Standard and Foreign Travel Tourist agencies do not take a serious view of the suspension of the gold standard affecting bookings for foreign travel during the autumn . A representative of Thos . Cook & Son ( Ltd . ) last night said : —It is a little ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GOLD STANDARD SUSPENSION BILL * Measure Passes All Stages Mr SNOWDEN EXPLAINS THE SITUATION Hoarding by France ..

... GOLD STANDARD SUSPENSION BILL * Measure Passes All Stages Mr SNOWDEN EXPLAINS THE SITUATION Hoarding by France and America a Cause of Trouble FOREIGN PANIC SELLING OF SECURITIES FOR CASH ¦ Parliament had yesterday a busy and exciting , day . Both Houses ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CHEERFUL COMMONS

... from iho K .. 1 . 1 Standard . The mood to-night was easily explained . This was no uncontrolled r . naUnig off the Gold Standard . It was ( i . hWate , calculated policy , with a definite if urgent purpose , and * perhaps with a • hHIenge in it to ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1952 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

tion of the situation with regard to the gold standard . What had brought us down from the pold standard

... tion of the situation with regard to the gold standard . What had brought us down from the pold standard was that other countries wero so disturbed in their finance that they had been forced io call in all their available sources of supply . PASSED IN ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

.. .. . * i MANY MARKETS IDLE ' • ¦ ' - » —* . ' . ¦ . ¦ . . ' - . - New -York and Paris Dealings SHORT ..

... followed London's lead and remained closed yesterday as the result of Great Britain ' s decision temporarily to abandon the gold standard , The Paris Bourse was closod to foreign exchange dealings , so ( says Reuter ) virtually the only key to world financial ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 458 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

KEEPING OUR HEADS

... elsewhere , brought about a . situation which had forced tho Government to take tho serious step of temporarily suspending the gold standard . Thoro is so much authoritative advice in tho Press this morning , added Mr Cree that I would only emphasise tho duty ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Lihp . ral Dissensions

... increased in ' the hope of further results . For instance , if , as is expected in many quarters , the suspension of the Gold Standard gives an impetus to trade , as it should do after the first uncertaint y has subsidedthe number of unemployed will be ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 828 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Effects of the Change

... been allowed to subside , that Britain is merely reverting to the position which sho was in before the resumption of the gold standard in 1925 . Unfortunatel y , the Opposition are still refusing to admit the need for economies , though their leaders had ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUMMARY OF NEWS

... apart from occasional rain or showers ; cool during day : sround frost locallv at night . ( P- 5 . ) Government and Gold Standard In a broadcast talk the Chancellor of the Exchequer declared that the British Budget was now the most securely balanced ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1096 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Money in Banks Perfectly Safe MR SNOWDRN'S ASSURANCE

... ' , in a talk which lie broadcast from 11 Downing Street last night , on . tho Government ' s decision to suspend tho gold standard . Tho British Uudgol , tho Chancellor declared , was now tho most securely balanced Budget in the world . Though the value ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BUDGET SECURELY BALANCE ] Rise in the Cost of Imported Goods

... which was sent out from tho National and Regional transmitters , said that Uio consequences of tho suspension of the gold standard wore bound to be disagreeable ; in some ways thoy might bo serious , but they would not bo disastrous or catastrophic ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 687 | Page: 7 | Tags: none