The Archive · 1934

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these Ballrooms The resignation to-day in "Berne of M. J. Mus; Diinister (Finance, has given rise to the fear that even Switzerland may go off there that his step will severely shake confidence in the Swiss franc.

Switzerland presents an extra: ordinary paradox in financial affairs, Swiss motes have a gold cover of no less than 98 per cent. In spite of the continued failure of the government to balance the country's budget and in spite of a calamitous business depression hanging over this country, so great has been the inrush of foreign deposits, many of them in gold, that the mere question of storage has become a very serious problem, Not only are the vaults of the Danks bursting with treasure but gold is being buried in secret hiding places in the mountains.

On the other hand, several banks Goring the winter have been forced 40 reduce their capital, due to lack INSULL IN SEA MYSTERY, Athens, Mar. 20.

The exact whereabouts of the Greek vessel Maiotos, in which the millionaire, Samuel Insull, made his fugitive American one-time multi-second departure from Greece on Sunday, remains a mystery. completely or making" only "token payments" on their war det obligations to the United States United Press,

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