PEACE PLEA.
UNKNOWN DUTCH COMMITTEE. ADDRESS TO MR ROOSEVELT. ('Received This Day, 10.60 a.m.) LONDON, July 26. The German-controlled 'Dutch ra-dio states that the Netherlands peace committee has appealed to President Roosevelt to offer his good offices “to prevent the destruction of one of two- brother peoples.” Dutch circles in London do not know the Netherlands peace committee, but they consider it has been formed for the specific purpose- pientionecl by the Dutch radio. -
GERMAN MONETARY PLANS.
ENFORCEMENT IN EUROPE. L GOLD NO LONGER. THE BASIS. BERLIN, July 26. “The. United States must abandon the idea that she. cain force her economic conditions on Europe,” declared Herr Elmk (the German Finance Minister), whom Reichs-Masrshal Goering has ordered to prepare to reconstruct German and European economy after the war. Herr Funk added: “We do not need North American intermediaries to enable us to trade with South American States. That trade must be based on free agreements with; the South American States, or there will not <l>e any trade.”
He asserted that gold would ceasei to be the basis of currencies within the German political and economic spheres. The reichsmark would he predominant in Europe, while thei United. States would be compelled to devalue the dollar. Germany did not intend to reintroduce an entirely free currency nor to institute, a currency union throughout Europe, because that presupposed a customs union. Germany would employ after the victorious war the same methods for European reconstruction as had resulted in her great economic success before and during the war.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 6
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