Some 750 of the best economic engineers of 45 nations went to the White Mountains of New Hampshire last week but not for a vacation. They went to Bretton Woods to join, the British and Americans in batting one another over the head with blueprints for a world stabilization fund.
Among the gentlemen present were Chiang Kai-shek's Finance Minister Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, Canada's Ilsley, Mexico's Suarez, Netherlands' Beyen, Russia's Stepanov, Iran's Ebtehaj. No one knew last week how they would line up; most of the preliminary skirmishing between the...
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