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...opening of the silver casket was promptly followed by a slump in silver futures, largely due to the stamp tax on speculation. In Colorado, silver men said that the President's silver bill gave them "nothing at all." Britons deplored the comfort given to the heresy of bimetallism. Frenchmen applauded the President's political savoir faire and shrugged their shoulders at the grotesque thought of bimetallism. Japanese peeped that bimetallism was impossible. Germany studiously explained that bimetallism does not work. Only foreign word of praise came from Shanghai. Mr. Tsuyee Pei, manager of the Bank of China...
...country has more to gain from peace and the sanctity of treaties than France. So it is not surprising to find that many Frenchmen are now saying that France made a tragic mistake in supporting Japan (in a backhand manner) in the Manchurian affair. And they note, with bitterness, that it was the Do Wendel press that wanted to let Japan have her imperial...
...emotionally France stands where the U. S. did in 1932. There will be no revolution if and only if the universally admired Gaston Doumergue can stay in power and force real reform on the Chamber of Deputies. Fear of another war is seriously hampering the recovery of French industry. Frenchmen are hoarding coin because they fear that war will close the banks, destroy industries...
...deepen and are prolonged for another year or two, as there is plenty of unhappy evidence to indicate, then profound political changes can scarcely fail to result. The French people as a whole are psychologically unprepared to endure a long depression without vigorous reactions in one direction or another. . . . Frenchmen are harassed, perplexed and ill at ease and as yet they see no real gleam of light pointing a way out of the depression. They are divided amongst themselves but that division is too even to indicate an easy solution. . . . Even so the French system is basically more sound...
...Thus, French interests not only sold arms to Hungary in flat violation of the Treaty of Trianon, but when Hungary defaulted on the bill the armorers got the French government to lend Hungary the money to pay the French armorers. Thus, too, the great Czechoslovakian armament company, controlled by Frenchmen, promoted the rise of Hitler in Germany and contributed millions of marks to Hitler's campaign. These same Frenchmen own newspapers that did more than any others to enrage France against Hitler. It is time we had a dramatis personae of arms...