GOLD STANDARD
BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE
EARLY RETURN UNLIKELY
ECONOMIC OBSTACLES
(British Official Wireless.) I (Received 10th February, noon.) 11UGBY, 9th February. Asked whether Sir Frederick Leith Ross, chief economic adviser to the Government, was instructed to outline at Geneva the conditions under which) Britain would be prepared to return to the gold standard the Primo Minister in the House of Commons to-day said that the statement did not indicate that, Great Britain was prepared to return to the gold standard in present circumstances. "On the contrary," he said, "it makes it plain in the words used by the Preparatory Committee of Experts at Geneva that there ire a great number of economic as well as financial conditions which must be fulfilled before the restoration of the international gold standard can be a practical possibility."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 7
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133GOLD STANDARD Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 7
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