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Throughout the Conference, dominion delegates eager for a little "inflationary Roosevelt prosperity" in their own lands have been pressing Chancellor Chamberlain to hitch Empire currencies in multiple harness with the dollar (TIME. July 24). Quietly Mr. Chamberlain took offices across the way from the World Conference, placed himself at the disposal of dominion delegates and proceeded to argue them down. The final session lasted 90 minutes, ended in an Empire Declaration pledging the Mother Country, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa to strive for: 1) A further rise in Empire wholesale prices to be stimulated by Empire Government...
...while Australia's dapper, grey-spatted Resident Minister in London. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, badgered his Government by cable at 40? per word to join the others in some sort of wheat acreage reduction pact (TIME, July 3). Last week, after a conference of Australia's State Premiers. Dominion Premier Lyons ("The Man from Tasmania") had good news for Mr. Bruce. Next day the "Big Four" announced themselves agreed on "a policy of temporary adjustment of production ... to world demand, with a view to improving the price of wheat and liquidating the surplus stacks now overhanging the market...
...matter of fact, there remained Australia, a young and frequently obstreperous British dominion. Had rich Mr. Morgenthau, who made his millions in Bronx real estate, forgotten or ignored Australia? By the time newshawks seriously put that question Uncle Henry was already a wheat hero, cackling to everyone his best anecdotes about the days when President Wilson sent him as Wartime Ambassador to Turkey and such yarns as the one about the time he caught Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England "with his vest unbuttoned." (Governor Norman, lolling back with unbuttoned vest, refused to loan an additional...
...Herriot had been greeted in French by the President on the White House portico, a limousine drove up and out popped Canada's pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. Almost simultaneously Canada's Finance Minister Edgar Nelson Rhodes, in Ottawa, was announcing that Canada had ceased redemption of Dominion notes in gold...
...With Secretary of State Hull, President Roosevelt motored to the patioed Pan-American Union Building to address a meeting of the Pan-American Union's governing board. The President interpreted the Monroe Doctrine to his listeners not as an instrument of U. S. dominion over the Americas, but as a mutual protective society "aimed against the acquisition in any manner of the control of additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power." For the first time, President Roosevelt took public notice of South America's two undeclared wars between Paraguay and Bolivia, Colombia and Peru...