3 OCTOBER 1931, Page 9

To our friends across the Channel, who to-day arc going

through the pangs that we suffered five years ago, we may perhaps be allowed to hold up our country as an example.

"We didn't ask any other nation to hand over its gold reserves. We worked, we saved, we gladly agreed to pay heavy taxes. Above all, we preserved confidence.

"This was the way we met and conquered adversity, without having the slightest idea of taking over someone else's property.''—L'Ami du Peuple (Paris), 27.9.31.

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