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Britain. British hotels also had a better year than last. With sterling cheap, tourist traffic was up 20,000 for the season, excluding the heavy week-end trade from normally stay-at-home gold-bloc countries like France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Visiting U. S. tourists remained twice as long as in previous years. Despite rate reductions to accommodate dollar travelers, the Savoy in London took in 35% more from room rent than...
France. With rare exceptions no hotel in France is making money and the swank Claridge, Plaza-Athénée and George V in Paris have suffered most of all. What little tourist trade there was last summer took refuge in smaller, cheaper places. French prices are still high even in terms of gold, and in terms of the dollar exorbitant. What is true of France is true of Netherlands and Belgium. Switzerland, where hotelkeeping is the third industry, is even gloomier...
Depression being what it is in France, this struggling emporium of tourist thrills offers for 150 francs ($10) in the afternoon or 450 francs ($30) in the evening to flog soundly one of its garmentless daughters of joy, first on a certified medieval torture wheel, then on an authentic "Spanish donkey" once used by the Inquisition and finally on a guillotine hitherto of somewhat doubtful authenticity...
...States thus assembled control almost one-half of the world's gold supply, embrace a third of Europe's population (excluding Russia) and are economically united only by the gold standard and the fact that most of them are "tourist countries." The mere fact that a Gold Conference had been called roused old fears, caused the gold currencies to dip last week. But the Conference, convened in pessimism, got straight to business and put through that business in an exceedingly snappy two-day session...
...stimulation of trade and consequent payments between nations of the Gold Bloc). To push this program the Conference set up: 2) a permanent Gold Standard Secretariat at Brussels; and 3) subcommittees of the Conference charged with the duty of drafting concrete plans for action in accelerating trade and tourist travel within the Bloc...