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Keceived Monaay, iu.du a.m. - LONDON, April *27. Replying to.Mr. Attlee's speech to the Scottish Trades Union Congress, Mr. Churchill said: "Mr. Attlee described me as the most disastrous Chancellor of the ExOhequer of the century, yet during my tenure of office the cost oi living decline$, wages remained stable and the number of employed increased, but in the two years of the Socialist Government's office the rate of unemployment. is more than doubled." Mr. Churchill agreed that he had brought Britain back on the gold siandard — on the advice of - the eommittee which Mr. Snowden, Jhancellor in the Socialist Government in 1924, appointed, and of which Mr. Attlee himself was a nember. Also Mr. Snowden, in the Pinancial Times during 1926, had said that the facts did not sunoort the impression that a return to he gold standard had been detrimental. Mr. Churchill added: "Mr. Attlee must. have been hard pressed to have to go back nearly a quarter of a century to find excuses for the mismanapemehit and blunders of which he evidently feels his Government guilty."
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 April 1947, Page 5
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