The Bank of England's standoffish Governor Montagu Norman very rarely can be induced to make a speech anywhere. But he will make one this week at a London luncheon which will be attended by an assortment of bigwigs Cabinet members, Members of Parliament, businessmen, foreign ambassadors. Later the same day there will be a frilly "sherry party" at the Savoy Hotel. The occasion for all this decorous festivity: the 100th birthday of the London Economist, a sedately liberal, authoritative British weekly which ranks with such respected and influential British newspapers as...
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