THE GOLD STANDARD

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3442, 12 March 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE GOLD STANDARD

FINANCIAL SAYINGS OF THE WEEK. I am convinced that we shall get through this danger through the action of reasonable people and not through the action of polit.cians.—Sir George Paish. Our job is to maintain at as high a price as we can the value of the pound.—Mr J. H. Thomas. While it is often difficult to sell, we have found on frequent occasions that it is impossible to acquire reasonable lines of good securities at current quotations.—Hon. J. M. Balfour. Is it possible that we shall yet see property as the one and only commodity or security to retain its value? Mr A. Maitland Kisch. When our countrymen calls on Hercules for help, I feel, like Hercules, inclined to say, “Let’s see you help yourself first, my man.” Clearly there cannot be prosperity on a modern scale in a world which refuses to countenance intt rnational trade.—Mr J. T. Carlyle-Gifiord.

Britain has now the greatest opportunity that has ever come to any nation in Imperial economic co-opera-tion.—Mr S. M. Bruce.