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During 1923, undoubtedly huge foreign funds sought investment in the U. S. because of European capitalists' distrust of governmental and financial stability on their own continent. The effect of this shifting of funds from Berlin, Paris and even London to New York has at various times, whether correctly or not, been pointed out in the press. All sorts of price movements and trade conditions have been mysteriously explained as due to foreign buying. Undoubtedly the American bond market and American construction and realty enterprises have absorbed foreign funds-how much no one really knows. Now the foreign situation appears...
...heart"--if by "heart" is meant everything except "head" and that the only advances which have been made by humanity--advances of an unusually materialistic sort--have resulted more or less directly from the efficient "headword" of those who have trained themselves to doubt--one is inclined to distrust ahe murmurings of the heart and to search for facts upon which the head can work. At present, there is no fact more certain than that the heart does indeed control the springs of action. If this must always be so, the future of man looks dark...
Conservative opinion outside of France is not satisfied with this easy method of blaming it on the Germans, holds that Poincare's policy was primarily responsible. With an unbalanced French budget, an intransigent attitude towards a reparations settle-ment and a general distrust of the implications of French foreign policy, ample reason existed for distrust, leading to a general fall of exchange rates and a stampede similar to the American free silver scare of 1895, to the gambling in 1919 on Russian rubles, in 1922 on the German mark, in 1923 on the sterling exchange under Baldwin...
...chance only to faction and manoeuvre." He advocated that the House should be fair to itself and to the electors and send an address to the Crown which, "if it expresses want of confidence in His Majesty's present Ministers, also records it repudiation of Socialism and its distrust of those whose policy of the capital levy and of nationalization of the means of production, distribution and exchange, has been so signally defeated at the polls...
...quarrel over the succession to the Russian Throne was settled in a family council of the Romanovs held in Paris. According to Grand Duke Alexander, the meetings of the family were called to end once and for all the gossip about discord and distrust existing between members of the House of Romanov...