PRESIDENT’S REQUEST.
GOLD CONTENT OF DOLLAR. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. President Roosevelt lias requested Congress to extend for two years his power to regulate the gold content of the dollar, and the Act creating the stabilisation fund. The President said that both measures enabled the United States to safeguard its interests and maintain international monetary and economic co-operation. “It is obvious, however, that the international monetary and economic situation is still such that it would not be safe to permit such powers to be terminated,” stated the President.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 9
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