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...Bolshevism Run Mad," Bitterest in the fight was Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who has "retired from the House of Commons," was not campaigning last week, but poured the bile and venom of his scorn gratuitously on the head of his former friend & colleague Arthur Henderson, late Foreign Secretary in the MacDonald Cabinet, now leader of the Labor Party...
Mere talk if another had uttered them, these Snowden words spread confidence. It was known that the Bank of France, holder of some $125,000,000 in London, was leaving this asset "frozen" and attempting no withdrawals. This policy, French bankers said, had in turn caused the Bank of France to draw gold from Manhattan until the London situation should clear...
Britons with their pound off gold and on a paper basis, thrilled by the million at Philip Snowden's solemn assurance that sterling still has an intrinsic value...
...Snowden, prowling last week in search of an economy that would not touch the poor, found what he wanted in Britain's diplomatic service, pruned the pay of Ambassadors and Ministers...
...today British Foreign Secretary. London papers pictured Lord Reading as about to make two points to M. Laval: 1) that Britain stands with the U. S. in favor of armament cuts; 2) that Britain still urgently desires the International Fiscal Conference proposed some time ago by Philip Snowden, hopes that M. Laval will discuss it with Mr. Hoover...