Franklin Roosevelt sabotaged the London Economic Conference of 1933 because
a. its members insisted on rigid adherence to the gold standard.
b. he believed that stabilizing national currencies might hurt America's recovery from depression.
c. he saw economic agreements as devices to get the United States into the League of Nations.
d. the Conference refused to deal with the issue of lowering German war reparations.
e. it was dominated by British and Swiss bankers.
b
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