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One consequence of the strained relations between Germany and Austria is the cessation of Nazl tours to Herr Hitler Austrian birthplace. Braunau-on-lon, which 1s only three miles from the Bavarian frontier.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933,

ROOSEVELT AND THE WORLD'S GOLD

WHAT HIS LATEST POLICY

MAY INVOLVE

President

(By Leonard J. Reid.)

London, Nov. 1. be there is nothing to be alarmed Roosevelt's decision about, although financial opinion in The Mecca of Nazi pilgrims is that America should resume the London is inclined to be very scepti the little house-now an Inn-in purchase of gold in the world mar-cal as to whether such action would. the Salzburger Vorstadtstrasse,kets was not unexpected in the City, really help him in his object.. It where he was born.

The experiment, was tried last would seem that the American peo- The 4752 Inhabitants are not week of fixing the price at which ple, and even their leaders, are of over-proud of their famous citizen. the Reconstruction Finance Cor- the opinion, that by raising the A proposed put before the town poration would buy new gold pro-price of gold and depreciating your One week's ex- currency, you are bound to ralbe council by a Pan-German to confer duced in America.

B

the freedom of the town on Herr perience has been sufficient to prove the commodity price level in your Hitler was defeated by a large that this limited measure alonejown country. Įmajority.

gave no help at all towards raising We in England were inclined the price of farm products.

to think on similar lines, until we A Tragic Mayor

Therefore, if Mr. Roosevelt was found that in 1931 and 1932 coincided Braunau has another historial determined to see how he could at- sterling depreciation Inelebrity--a mayor who was

tain his object by harnessing gold with, firat a stable, and then Iputed to have the longest beard into his purpose, it was obvious that} declining level of prices.

the world.

The must Boon yo further.

Would it be different in Ameri- He His end was tragic. Rushing to must endeavour to influence not ca? Just possibly, and for two take command of the local firo-only the American price, but the reasons,

is at brigade at a fire, he tripped on his world price. of gold. The only In the first place, there beard and broken his neck.

the least

a chance that the general jeffect of fixing the price of True, he goes back to 1560, but product of the American gold world recovery will continue for a the lesson of his life's tragedy sur-mines at artificially high levels was while, and influence prices

beards vives. There are no

is: to give a wholly unnecessary bonus America as well as elsewhere. Braunau. Neither, for that matter, to the owners of those mines.

the second place, the conditions of Is the Hitler moustache yet popular,

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Jannings On The Stage Again

to

in

in

So now America is apparently the self-contained American Con- attempt to raise the world tinent are very different from those price of gold by becoming a buy-of Britain or any other European er in foreign markets.

country, except, possibly, France. For these reasons no one

is pre- pared to predict the effect American prices of further

It is stated from Vienna that Mr. Roosevelt's

Emil Jannings is shortly returning Well-Kept Secret

Jannings

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But what if Mr. Roosevelt is

to the stage. Apparently the pre- So far nobody outside the White moderate depreciation of the dollar, valent Henry VIII. virus has got House knows how Mr. Roosevelt und moderate raising of the world into his blood, and he is to appear proposes to put his decision into gold price. DEATH

Cripps would necessarily mean an at the Josefstadt Theatre in Vienna force. Will he be content to bid for America Does Not political dictatorship. He, of in a play of that name just written the new gold which comes on the

Want Gold London markel each FRANKLIN,—At the Victoria Hos- course. denies this, and protests by Albrecht Josef.

week 7 Or pital, Hong Kong. at 4.15 against the idea that he, the son

has already played are his aims more ambitious? For driven to far wider and bolder use

the at- Ou Monday, 27tb November, of the great

pacifist, Lord Henry VIII-once on the stage in instance, has he in mind

of his new experiment? What if tu America offering 1

(he has in mind, or if he may in the 1933. Arthur Cawte Frankin. Parmoor, could ever contemplate Shakespeare's version, and once intraction

an American films called "Decep-fancy, price? becoming or favouring a British

tion." It

finance the end be driven to a policy of drawing ix

histrionically not.

How is he going to dictator. The controversy

large stocks of gold from the only is! speaking, a far cry from the pro-purchase of the gold? The Federal

large stocks of gold exist?

Funeral Crema-

ayed 58 yeurs. The will take place at the

the French Hospital al p.m. to-day. No flowers request.

torium, Causeway Bay passing largely academic. There is littleffensor in the "The Blue Angel" to Reserve system has, of course, the country outside America in which

The China Mail

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by likelihood that the discordant the Henry and Katherine Howard machinery for foreign gold pur-

elements in the Labour party can episode.

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Your Daily Smile

that, "Now, My Operation

be got together so as to win, within the next ten years, majority of the House of Com- [mons. Yet it is a fact

among Tories and Liberals, asl A writer says that a cinema is Hong Kong. Tuesday, Nov. 28, 1983. well as among members of the he best place to hear organ recitals

Labour party, there is a growing nowadays, Hydros still run demand for A greater and pretty close.

Dictators And Democracy

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chases. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to whom the purchas ing is now to be entrusted, has not. Will he, as we have done here, set] up an Exchange Control Fund?

Those who interpret his inten- tion as being of this grandiose nature foresee the possibility of France and the other gold coun- tries being driven off the Gold Standard, and of a world war of currency depreciation being. . started.

fe like sending Is she likely

Until many of those questions are answered it is quite impossible them to say what the full significance te

Such dire possibilities may lurk of the American President's intest behind Mr. Roosevelt's new policy. essay in monetary policy, prompter exercise of power by

One thing is perfectly clear, and But it is very premature to suppose that those dangera are very His Mother-Tongue the Government, in a sense al

that is the aim which the policy

real or very near. America most dictatorial. Such a thing tion says that great men in every Roosevelt's Administration entirely superabundance of t

An opponent of classical educa-

secks to achieve. The fate of Mr.

does not want gold. She has a The subject has become one of might be brought about by an century got on well without know-

To send wide discussion. It has even en-enlargement of the functions of ing Latin. What about Julius depends on its success or failure in gold to New York raising prices of agricultural pro coal to Newcastle. tered school debates in the the bureaucracy. These

have Caesar?

duets. Farmers of the West and to go an frittering away her re United States. A letter from an already been made so extensive

Middle West have seen their sav- sources ingenuous maiden in a Western as to rovoke a remonstrance by Another Joke About Scotland

In buying other people's- ings disappear. Their load of Lord State asks for information and the Lord Chief Justice.

gold, which she does not want, at Jock: Which wnd ye like, Ioan. mortgages has increased. Credi-

high prices, unless auch process Indvice concerning the topic. But Hewart, whose book of a couplejaweets or fruit?

tors threaten to forecloss

upon clearly and carly shows that it is interest in it America is not of years ago analyzed the case' Jean: Bath.

their farms.

having the desired effect of raising nearly so great as, of all places, with great pungency.

Su he bought her a toffet apple. It is

They demand more remunerative American prices? in Great Britain. There it is doubtless also true that the ex-

prices for what they grow, and Mr. Mr. Roosevelt has shown a bold Thaving a tremendous rud in ample of President Roosevelt has As Broad As It Was Long?

Roosevelt has promised to satisfy aptitude for sudden changes of pamphlets and books and public had its effect in England in stir- A seven-act play recently their demands.

policy. And if, as London thinks, [addresses. One writer protests. ring up not only admiration but censored.

Exploring Every

this latest departure will not prove against the false and fatal dis- Board of Trade asserted

jenvy. The President of the

Avenne

highly practical, then, surely, it le tinction between dictatorship and other day that Mr. Roosevelt is

At the outset of Mr. Roosevelt's not likely to be pressed very far. First he called her, his treasure, term of office prices rose on a wave (Continued on, Page 11). democracy." Evidently in his "the greatest autocrat in the They wedded, and then he became of psychological recovery. For the mind the two may safely be world.” How he obtained his her treasury. blended. His thought had an extraordinary powers, it might

last three months they have steadily parently been stirred by the re-be well for English public men

{slipped back, Mr. Roosevelt Is,

therefore, willing to try any and] cent volume on the future pro-to consider. In form, at least,

Wife: Why is it we can never every expedient to set prices ris- gram of the Labour party written they were conferred upon him

save money?

ing. by Sir Stafford Cripps. Sir in strict conformity with the Husband: Chiefly because the Stafford is a lawyer of great American Constitution. He has neighbours keep doing things we Gold Standard and depreciating He has tried abandoning the ability, having been Solicitor exerted no authority except that can't afford.

the dollar. He has tried psycho-{ General in the last. Labour conferred upon him by Congress.

logical "boosting" with great! Government. What he really of some of the vast and vague Culinary CamEOS

vigour. He has tried a vaat experi set out to prove in bis book is Powers granted him by regularly: "Waiter, this is a very small por- ment of national control of Wyzen The number of stray dogs :

enacted statutes, he has, as yet, tion of ice.” that, the Labour party, when it made no use. Of course, it may well, do you expect to be able which he promised to reach quickly that the Municipal authorities are comes into power again, will be be, and the Supreme Court will able to carry out all its plans very likely be called upon to de- within constitutional limitations. cide if it is go, that Congress

the

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MATRI-MONEY.

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to skáte on it for sixpence

If it should have a majority in exceeded its own constitutional Facts You Did Not the House of Commons, and rights in giving to the Prest-

Know. should desire to proceed, for dent, what it did. But thus far, example, with a statute nationali it must be admitted, there has A company has been formed in zing the Bank of England and, been no such thing as an overt the Transvaal to produce crude oil indeed, all the banks, it would surpation of power, no violent from domestic shale. undoubtedly

asmimption of anything like a dictatorship. There has been

incot its frat

PRICE ON DOG'S TAILS.

Istanbul's Effort To 'Exterminate Strays..

Istanbul.

and prices. But still the gopi Istanbul has increased so fapidly

is far off.

considering placing a price on He must seek anothér fex- their tails.” padlent. He seeks to manipulate It is proposed that A reward gold, in the hope thereby offle-jshould be given to anyone bringing pressing the dollar», and raising]a' dog's tail to the nearest polică; the level of prices,

station..

It is thought In -some, quarters This practice was in vogg6 years). that, in fact, Mr. Roosevelt will to go, but was abandoned because it very little by way of gold purchases sometimes led to cruelty. At pre abroad, and, that his latest decision sent the authorities are trying to obstacle in a veto by the House of no real departure from the es moves tops from jars as it has jaws proof to the farming community laon; but they have met with little Simply turning a new dayice re: is taken merely to give further exterminate the animals with pol- Lords. But this could be over tablished form of democratic that are self adjusting......... come, Sir Stafford argues, by de procedure. It might even bó

manding of the King that he argued that what has been done A new protector clip for the create a sufficient naraber of is really a triumph for democracy point of lead pencil can be turned new Peers to execute the will of It has shown, its versatility and at right Angles for use the people. Ah, but suppose the adaptability. In a great national hammer. monarch should refuse? In that emergency it has embraced plans

the House of Lords did not

that he is busy exploring every success. avenue to help them. If so, woll The local society for the Protec- and goodi „i

tion of "Animals is watching: thứ {situation closely,--Leuter,

No Present Cause

SENORITAS WHO WILL NOT MARRY

For Alarm Bat: Gold can only be bought by case, declares Bir Stafford, the made necessary by the times. Be About 75 per cent, of the paper Americans through sales of dollars, Labour Government would pro-it noted, also, that the grants of and paper board manufactured in and the sale of dollars will tend to ceed with its project just as

power to the President have Brazil la produced in the state of depreciate the value of the dollar in ||

Madrid? Lerms of other currenales. A fu SamesIt F not Sao Paulo that they wIN

might, If it were on a moderate A bachelor girls' club, to which récalled

Control of manufacture and trade scale, do little more than counteract no men are admitted, has been

blion pictures in Yugoslavia the present tendency of the dollar formed here, y

bands of a to increase in value whenever it is This le retort to the recently Iponsor left alone for a short period. started men's Bachelor: Club, f KANTHI that is all that Mr. Roosevelt Madrid from which all female visi→

has in mindand it very, well say tors, are banned Bäuter::.

exist. That would frankly revolution, or at least une

tional

drawn

conclu

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