Bolschewismus, Fascismus und Demokratie

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Identifikator:: 1713886359

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-103104

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Nitti, Francesco Saverio http://d-nb.info/gnd/119470764

Title:: Bolschewismus, Fascismus und Demokratie

Edition:: 1.-10. Tsd.

Place of publication:: München

Publisher:: Hanfstaengl

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 102 Seiten; 1 Portr.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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1540 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII Imperial Government were anxious to make the change the passing of such a resolution might strengthen their hands. Mr. Buxton,! on behalf of the Home Government, could not support the resolution because he could not undertake that the reform would be carried out. If they had a clean slate the decimal system of coinage and the metric system of weights and measures could advantageously be adopted, but this was not the case, and the House of Commons had rejected the proposal to make it compulsory because trade, commerce, and domestic arrangements would be seriously upset. He added in reply to Mr. Malan 2 that the foreign countries had not pressed for the change being made, and Sir Joseph Ward,? while agreeing with the theoretic merits of the metric and decimal systems, recognized that at present no change was practicable, and as Sir Edward Morris,* on behalf of Newfoundland, concurred in this view, Mr. Batchelor with- drew the resolution after he had suggested that the difficulty might be obviated if ten or fifteen years’ notice was given of the intended change. The subject of coinage was revived on June 16, when Sir J. Ward 5 took the opportunity of advocating, not the decimal system, but a system of interchange of coins, com- plaining of the disuse of the half-crown as legal tender in the Commonwealth, and the resulting loss to New Zealanders, The Australian representatives combated the assertion, but admitted that they omitted the coin from the new coinage with a view to approximating to a decimal system. Sir W. Laurier ® reminded the Conference that Canada, allowed British coins as legal tender, but said they were little used, and he advocated theoretically the decimal system as the only sensible one. Mr. Lloyd George 7 deprecated any kind of coinage reform in view of the conservatism of * Cd. 5745, pp. 166, 167. Ibid., p. 168. Ibid., pp. 368, 369, Ibid., pp. 370, 371. Ibid., pp. 167, 168. Ibid., p. 168. Ibid., pp. 369. 370.

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