Epilogue
The London Economic Conference finally closed on 27 July 1933, its purpose unrealised. The early denunciation of currency stabilisation by President Roosevelt of the United States of America rendered its objective of achieving that impossible. The Great Depression would continue.
Offended that his gift had been rejected, Francis Pocock refused to accept the return of the wax replica he had created of Lord Pierrepont’s head. Unable to find any other suitable home, Rowland Sinclair gave it to Inspector Entwhistle of Scotland Yard who committed it to the collection of the Black Museum.
On 14 August 1933, Winston Churchill made his first of many public speeches warning against the ambitions of Adolf Hitler and urging Britain to rearm. He would be considered a warmonger by some and
