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...dollar at 17? A surprisingly stable currency the dollar retained its value despite Japanese currency raids, Chinese military de^at" apanese political pressure on Great Britain. But last week in Shanghai political and economic pressure worked together for the first time. To check a flood of Japanese-sponsored Hua Hsing Bank notes known as "H. H. dollars," in Shanghai, the stabilization commission stopped supporting the dollar, let it "find a level more in keeping with its natural power of resistance." It settled to 13½?, stayed there. Then Britain began formula-writing with the Japanese at Tokyo. Down went...
...christened capital one Dr. Tchou Gao-hsing assumed the title of "Foreign Minister," announced last week to the Great Powers that the marshal will shortly call a People's Congress in Peking to elect Yen the President of all China, and that President Yen will have as his war minister famed General Feng Yu-hsiang, redoutable master of the largest private army in the world: 150,000 men (TIME, July...