GREAT BRITAIN: Well Informed People

“Well Informed People”

Amid the clamor for reduction of Great Britain’s War debt to the U. S. now being raised by so many prominent persons,* Sir Robert Stevenson Home, onetime (1920-22) Chancellor of the Exchequer, placidly observed last week in London: “It has been represented that . . . this country … is … saddled . . . with a burden of payment under which we are groaning and struggling, and which is an important cause of the industrial depression from which we are suffering. “You would suppose that—and I find a large number of ordinarily well-informed

*Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Chairman Frederick Graufurd Goodenough of Barclays Bank, Ltd., Nicholas Murray Butler, Banker Albert Henry Wiggin etc., etc., etc.