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Oral Answers to Questions — International Currency.

– in the House of Commons at on 11 July 1935.

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Photo of Mr Tom Smith Mr Tom Smith , Normanton

36.

asked the Chancellor of the exchequer whether the opportunity provided by the attendance of the governor of the Bank of England at the recent meeting of the Bank of International Settlement at Basle was used by the Treasury to raise the question of currency stabilisation?

Photo of Mr Neville Chamberlain Mr Neville Chamberlain , Birmingham, Edgbaston

No, Sir.

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