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Wartime Gold Restrictions

Great Britain · Government / Liberal Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1914

David Lloyd George6 August 1914

London · Government / Liberal Party Government

Emergency currency legislation restricts gold payments and introduces Treasury notes during the war.

Names involved

David Lloyd George

Provenance

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