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Show British Pound HoldsSpollighl WASHINGTON. Sept. S W"v Diplomatic officials said Saturday that Great Britain's economic comeback route looks bleak until ahs rubs decisively one wsy or another an-other on devaluing tha pound. They said Britain's answsr on this point Is probably -tha moat important Issue In the forthcoming forthcom-ing Bntiih-American -Canadian financial fi-nancial talks. If rumors of devaluation persist after the conference ends, they ssid. many British customers are likely to continue to hold back buying British goods, thus making mak-ing it difficult for Britain to earn the dollars shs needs so badly. This slowdown In buying, especially espe-cially by some American customers, custom-ers, has been one of the fsctors thst hsa sggravsted the British financial crisis in tha last few m on tha and caused the labor government gov-ernment to dip deep Into its re- serves. . Sir Stafford CtIdds. British chancellor of the exchequer, has repestrdly tried to spike these rumors. ru-mors. But thus fsr he haa aot succeeded. suc-ceeded. In fact, an increasing number num-ber of newspapers and business men hava joined the chorus that Britain's money Is overpriced under un-der present conditions and that devaluation la necessary to increase in-crease trade. Sir Stafford will' get another chance to put theas rumors to rest during the meetings with Treasury Treas-ury Secretary Snyder, Secretary of State Acheson and top Canadian Cana-dian cabinet officers. These discussions dis-cussions are scheduled to begin neat Wednesdsy. |