London, Oct. 1.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, [sr. Neville Chamberlain, in welcom= ing the delegates of 3i nations to) the International Parliamentary. Conference to-day, reiterated that. the restoration of an international gold standard was the ultimate aim of the British policy.
He said, however, that he did not] think conditions—apart from the immediate conditions of the inter-rational crisis which prevented even 2 tentative approach to stabilization—were yet sufficiently favourable for so difficult an. experiment.
Nevertheless, he thought the lessons lof the depression had not been lost, and the world was nearer to an agreement than at any time since the [Great War, on the direction which their policy ought to take—Wireless through Reuter.
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