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Sacrificing Sovereignty. "The No. 1 theme for 1969 must be monetary reform," says West Germany's Economics Minister, Karl Schiller. "As long as every nation pursues a different economic policy, there will be ever recurring speculations and danger of an explosion of the monetary system...
French and German intransigence sent Europe's monetary system reeling toward the brink of crisis. On the day that Schiller, chairman of the Group of Ten, summoned the world's leading central bankers and finance ministers to an emergency meeting in Bonn, demand for gold in London hit the highest level since March. In New York, sterling hit rock bottom at $2.38. In Swiss money markets, it slipped even lower. The dollar, by comparison, weathered the crisis fairly well, reflecting general confidence that the U.S. was finally doing something convincing about its balance of payments problem...
When the money men assembled in the barracks-style structure that houses the West German Economics Ministry, Schiller wasted little time in making clear his opposition to the revaluation of the mark. As the meeting dragged on into evening, tempers began to flare. "They did everything except throw chairs at each other," said one participant. Bitter exchanges broke out between the world's leading monetary managers. According to one report, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer lectured the West German Finance Minister "as if he were a member of the Conservative Opposition." Jenkins himself was heckled outside...
...point in the proceedings, Schiller snapped at the U.S.'s Fowler: "Let us be clear that the mark is not undervalued, but that the dollar is overvalued." Fowler replied with an extraordinary paean: "Gold is the sun," he said, "and the dollar is the earth. The earth revolves around the sun and the relationship doesn't change." Retorted Schiller: "Then I guess we're all just little satellites launched from Cape Kennedy." After Jenkins and Fowler had characterized the German trade tax concessions as inadequate, Schiller declared, "If the lopping off of one third of our export...
...that still remains out of balance-and has significantly contributed to the fiscal problems of Britain and France-is the foreign-trade account. As in 1967, the Germans will record a trade surplus of more than $4 billion this year. Increased domestic consumption hardly makes up for that, and Schiller's solution has been the encouragement of investment abroad-some $2.5 billion...