By Shigeo Horie (auth.)
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The White Plan itself underwent various vicissitudes before it was made public. The project was altered twice, so that there were three versions. According to Gardner, besides the original version there were two others typewritten and mimeographed in March and April 1942, respectively. Though the second and third were not very different from one another, the first differed markedly from the final draft,z The original plan was very ambitious, having the character of a financial department of, as it were, a world government.
1 Prior to this France had recorded a large surplus in its balance of payments owing to the withdrawal of its own capital investments from abroad and the fall in the exchange rate; but the fate of the gold exchange standard system was practically decided when it decided to accept only gold in settlement. 2 The gold reserves of the Bank of England at that time were maintained at a level of about [150 million. That level, however, was barely maintained by the inflow of gold from its colonies and by new production.
Harrod, TM Pound Sterling, as translated into Japanese under the title Gendai-no-Pondo and published by the Shiseido, p. 15. I 2 29 The International Monetary Fund doubtful whether the sterling currency in the funds would be converted into gold at the rate expected. The same may be said of the balance in foreign currencies possessed by Britain's Exchange Equalization Account. In short, it is essential for the operation of a stabilization fund that the gold value of the currencies of the countries concerned should be secured as much as possible, and that no alteration of an exchange parity should be made arbitrarily by any country, but with the co-operation of all concerned.