Recovery began in Great Britain when she unhooked Sterling from gold, scrapped traditional free trade and set her industries humming behind new tariff walls. Today this hum has become a "boom" with riveters dinning all day in and out of London. Last week came another omen of British recovery as hawk-nosed, stoop-shouldered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loosened the Empire's money bags a trifle and dangled the prospect of loans before countries which have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo...
Foreign News: King Sterling
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