Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Such legislation places the right, title and ownership to our gold reserves in the Government itself.

All this is in confidence until the message is released and nothing is to be said in advance of the release.

There has been absolutely no doubt from the legal point of view of the authority under the previous Act to stabilize more than once.

The result of providing a bond on which both the principal and interest are guaranteed would be to put such bonds on a par with Treasury sec...