Often dollar-hostile, the newsorgans of Baron Beaverbrook veered around like weathercocks last week to crow the praises of dollars in general and of newly-arrived Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, dollar Croesus.
"French banks have advised against the dollar and French newspapers have attacked it,* recalled the Beaverbrook Evening Standard as his new friendliness flowered, "but American business character today is strong and good. . . . We say, therefore ... to the American people ... in the words of the prophet, Nahum, 'Keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy...
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