Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the discount rate of the Reichsbank stood at 7½%, a potent magnet. But even more gold planes sped to France, and that was passing strange. With the Bank of France's rate at 3½%, the zeal of that institution to acquire and hold gold bullion was regarded in London as distinctly ominous. Was the explanation that France ?on the eve of The Hague Reparations Conference?was amassing a spectacular gold reserve, swelling her credit to proud, unwonted dimensions, and generally preparing to overawe the Conference with a display of her fiscal might...
...reparations situation at The Hague where fiery Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden seemed intent on bending or breaking the Young Plan. In making up his mind whether to back Battler Snowden to the limit the Prime Minister must know the attitude of the fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through the night, finally issued a startling manifestation in support of Chancellor Snowden's demand that the Empire receive a larger slice of the reparations "sponge cake...
Across dazzling millions of little sun-flecked wavelets Prime Minister Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha last week came sailing home. Smiles softened his arrogant face. Fellow passengers noted with what gusto His Excellency ate. Oranges he seemed especially to relish. Here was a contented traveler who had been to distant London and brought the draft text of a proposed treaty which optimistic phrase-coiners were already calling "The Magna Carta of Egyptian Liberty...
Best minds have often contended that Egypt ought not to have a Magna Carta. For example, Citizen Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at London in 1910, warmed the cockles of British hearts by shouting: "If you feel that you have no right to be in Egypt, if you do not wish to establish and keep order there, why, then, by all means get out of Egypt! . . . Some nation must govern Egypt. . . . I hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that nation!" Citizen Roosevelt had just topped off his famed African hunting expedition with an Egyptian...
...opinion has crystalized against British occupation so sharply that Deputies returned at the last election were almost solidly anti-British and King Fuad of Egypt (a British puppet) had to dissolve the Egyptian Parliament for three years to maintain the status quo. 2) There has come to power in London a Cabinet of Laborites who believe that, though Britain must continue to police Egypt's Suez Canal (route to India, "spinal column of the empire"),* still it should be possible to allow Egyptians substantial freedom in the Nile valley and autonomous rule in such great cities as Alexandria and Cairo...