would at it werealways so ineal li! problem in the 1930s was that countries were not willing to go through this adjustment process. to allow an outflow of gold and a reduction inoumoney supply when your economy was already seriously depressed, was simply unacceptable. roosevelt said he woulput "first ts first." another way of saying this is that countries in a depression were not going to "let the international tail wag the domestic dog." under really serious pressure, the gold standard collapsed. schoumacher: 1944. the ttles weretill lo and fierce. as the allies swept across europe, there was no longer any real question that germany would be defeated. but there wererave concerns about whether the countries of the world could recover from the economic ravages of the war. inuly 1944 worleconomic leaders met here in bretton woods, new hampshire. it was at this hotel that representatives of 44 countries met for 22 days to cate a blueprint for a new world economic order. but why would at system, so careful craed here, event