With all the good will in the world the amazing rumours and speculations which have developed with such Intensity during the present financial uncertainty cannot be entirely ignored. It is bad enough to have trade the doldrums but the additional complication of finding the markets beset by the agile ingenuity of the Tumour-monger tends to make the situation worse. The Government's Position is exceedingly difficult. I obviously cannot—and should not—[make decisions hastily. Yet it cannot be blind to the fact that the longer: the delay in coming to definite conclusions on such measures as may be contemplated, the greater the opportunity for the speculator whose activities bode little good to genuine business. It may "be that no special measures can be suggested or sup-that "event might! The chief need is to obtain some clear-cut announcement which leaves the mark~ ets—and the speculators—in_no sort! of doubt on that particular point. The Sate of affairs. ese tnaxtstactory that possibly the very virulence of the disease may bring about its own solution. That should not, however, encourage the responsible authorities in further delaying decisions—either of action or inaction, as wisdom suggests.
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