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...world will not long be lulled by the specious fallacy of achieving a temporary and probably an artificial stability in foreign exchange on the part of a few large countries only." Last week U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and French Finance Minister Vincent Auriol got together by transatlantic and trans-Channel telephone and apparently achieved precisely what the President had derided in 1933. Mr. Morgenthau was of course acting for the President, but at Hyde Park last week Mr. Roosevelt did not actually eat any words, refused absolutely...
...Washington-London-Paris agreement, M. Auriol dramatically explained, has been under super-secret negotiation ever since last June, not a word of what Morgenthau, Chamberlain and Auriol were confiding to each other having leaked to the press...
...what he had done throughout the world. This flash could be counted on to warn money speculators everywhere that they would get their fingers burned if they tried to manipulate for reasons of private profit the dollars, pounds and francs with which it is the exalted mission of Morgenthau, Chamberlain and Auriol to manipulate for the public good...
...this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, who received his knighthood for having been one of the co-makers of the Treaty of Locarno...
...strange things about Germany in recent years has been the inability of Nazis and Catholics to get together. Adolf Hitler is a Catholic and has at his elbow a Papal Chamberlain in the person of Ambassador-on-Special-Mission Franz von Papen who as long ago as 1933 negotiated a Concordat for Der Führer with Il Papa. Yet typical Nazi newsorgans have been stewing up hotter & hotter scandals about German Catholic dignitaries, lumping them all, by implication, as currency smugglers and sexual perverts. In a recent issue of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer appeared...