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...beginning of their last stand may well come next week, when the gold-bloc countries confer at Brussels on their monetary future. With their export markets fast slipping away to the lands of cheap money, factories are idle, citizens uproarious. Belgium will offer a plan for reciprocal and preferential treaties, segregating the gold bloc from the rest of the world. Dutch bankers are talking of pooling colonial empires and drawing in Italy. But fact remains that only France, with better than a 100% gold coverage for its currency, can hold out indefinitely?if Jean Frenchman can stand...
Daniel Calhoun Roper, Secretary of Commerce, who declared the U. S. should be "aeroized" just as it was "motorized." For a means of "aeroizing" the country he suggested that the Howell Committee confer with "some of the outstanding leaders in the motor industry...
Sept. 80--President Roosevelt will confer with representatives of capital and labor next month in an effort to establish a trial period of industrial peace, he disclosed tonight in a vigorously worded message to the nation...
...possible, Italy. In such a chain of alliance, not in Germany's pledge on parchment however fine, Louis Barthou would prefer to put his trust. "The solemn promise of Germany," he has said, "is not enough for me." Last week he announced that next month he expects to confer with Benito Mussolini in Rome, seeking Italy's signature for his ring around Germany...
...Henri announced last week that the prime purpose of his visit was to confer with his old friend Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil. "There is always," said he, "enough to talk about when oil men get together." But to a newshawk who asked him if a world oil conference was likely this year, he shot back: "What can be done until you put your house in order...