since high monthly indexes of silver Lite if any tag could be detected, purchasing. power abroad. were us-ally mathe by low monthly in-sexes, of wholesale prices in, China, trid vice versa. Only when Bagland and the United States lett the gold Handard. were there, temporary hanges in the purchasing power of the Boer War ruined my prac: Hee, Lord Riddell is more than a great journalist. He is a great friend who can so record conversations that they bring out the best in thir authors. One final story must be given to end this inconsequential inspiration from the Naldera's journey up the Whangpoo ta-morrow. It cites the last entry in Lord Riddell' Diary which came to an end in 1924 and it deals with an alleged ton mot of our most beloved and most efficient King.
Someone is said to have asked hi "How are you getting on, with your. Labour Government?" He Hi'said to have replied; "Very well. My grandmother would eve hated it; my father would have tolerated it; but I move with the times.
Mr. George Bernard Shaw must slecme this confirmation of the wisdom of "The Applecart," written six years later. silver in those respective countries that were not reflected in opposite changes in Chinese wholesale prices.
Since the middle of 1931, the ur chasing power of silver kas and the 1e price level has dee-fined. In the middle of 1981, the Chinese price level reached 425 in North" China and about 130, of Shanghai, when 1926 equals, 100. By. the middle of 1993, wholesale prices in China had fallen to about The 1926 level, At the same time, the purchasing power of silver in England had risen from a low point in 1981 to about its 1926 level.
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