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December 23, 1931 issue

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The article presents information on various political issues. Great Britain's prime minister's call for an economic conference of the nations has unfortunately met with coolness only. That there should be one is plain, it should have been called a year ago. Now Austen Chamberlain has publicly declared the difficulty to lie in the fact that those nations, plainly France and the U.S., which ought to be most concerned would probably refuse to abide by the inevitable findings of the conference. There is the crux of the problem. Those two nations have not yet suffered enough from the crisis to be ready to readjust however painfully, their own fiscal policies and their politics to the gravity of the international situation.

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POLITICAL development; CONGRESSES & conventions; ECONOMIC policy; INTERNATIONAL relations; GREAT Britain; UNITED States
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