... was formed to avert, fell on Sunday, when the Treasury hail to I announce that Greet Britain had been I forced off the gold standard. The I emergency Budget had failed to re- I store foreign confidence in the financial stability of this cpuntry. A wave ...

... intolerable. World trade was being frozen by the misuse of the gold standard by the United States and France, who between them had immobilised two-thirds of the worki's gold supply. The gold standard was never intended to operate in restraint of trade, hut ...

... best I Plan is to have a world conference on the matter. The National Government had made no effort to deal with the gold standard, but had ; taken the move which the hankers had I premed upon them for years—that of lowering dole and Ito bringing down ...