Word: layton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London last week Sir Walter Thomas Layton, director of the Economic & Financial Section of the League and a delegate to the Lausanne Conference said that the accords "put an end to Reparations." Herr Hitler has declared that the accords "will not be worth more than three marks (71c) in six months" (TIME, July...
...upheld the French thesis that Germany cannot remain forever unable to pay her debts, that when prosperity returns she should pay what she owes under the Young Plan which must be kept intact. The paradoxically hard-boiled "Pollyanna Report" was drafted by Britain's young delegate, Sir Walter Thomas Layton, 47, no glad-man (extreme right...
Abroad the reaction was less favorable. In England, .Lombard Streeters referred to the plan as "a damp squib." Sir Walter Layton, Bank of England's representative on the Wiggin Committee, said it was "controlled inflation." In Paris the criticism was sharper, the eventual reaction on the Bourse violent. The third bank failure in Paris in ten days was announced, that of Banque Syndicale...
...Walter Thomas Layton, editor of The Economist (Great Britain...
...domestic extravagance. From the Wall Street point of view no financial diplomat could better express the hard truth which Germany had yet to be told than Banker Wiggin. As head of the Committee he could say these things privately or call as he did upon other speakers. Sir Walter Layton was loud in demanding German fiscal reform; he pointed proudly to the drastic economies that Britain is considering...