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there is not such freedom of import and export
of gold does the currency of one country fall
to any substantial discount in relation to
another currency.
Well, of course on that question of the foreign trade
in gold, for a good long time as a matter of actual
fact the United States has been the only country on
the gold standard. France has been theoretically on
a gold standard, but nobody in France can go and take
a bill to the bank and get gold for it and as far as
imports and exports go in France, it has been govern-
ment controlled. The same thing holds true in
Switzerland and Holland and it is only up to last
Sunday night that we have had free trade in gold,
and now we haven't.
Q Shall we get ready to revive the term of "Controlled
inflation?"
THE PRESIDENT: I wish somebody would invent a new term.
I don't know what it is.
Q May I ask if the long-time settlement of the banking
situation is inter-meshed with the world economic
conference?
THE PRESIDENT: I should say on that -- background
information --- so far as banks go within the United
States, no. So far as international exchange goes,
yes. I think that is the easiest way of putting it.
In other words, the opening of banks and the maintaining
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