When a journalist even raised the question at a press conference there of whether Britain could or should remain on a gold standard that had become unworkable, required Britain to borrow gigantic amounts of money to sustain it, and was imposing intolerable sacrifices on the great mass of people, Sir Warren Fisher, head of the civil service and permanent secretary to the treasury, “rose to his feet, his eyes flashing691, his face flushed with passion,” and berated the journalists as if he had caught them “exchanging obscenities.” “Gentlemen, I hope no one will repeat such sentiments outside
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