Word: barter
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...French delegation in particular will insist on discusing at length the limitation of land armaments in relation to the existing causes of unrest and insecurity in Europe. Its policy with respect to political and military problems of the Pacific may serve only as stock-in-trade which it can barter in exchange for advantages nearer at home. But if European perplexities dominate the deliberations of the Conference, it will come to a stop in front of the embittered conflicts of national interest which defeated Mr. Wilson in Paris and with which the statesmanship of the present administration is not prepared...
...French delegation in particular will insist on discusing at length the limitation of land armaments in relation to the existing causes of unrest and insecurity in Europe. Its policy with respect to political and military problems of the Pacific may serve only as stock-in-trade which it can barter in exchange for advantages nearer at home. But if European perplexities dominate the deliberations of the Conference, it will come to a stop in front of the embittered conflicts of national interest which defeated Mr. Wilson in Paris and with which the statesmanship of the present administration is not prepared...
Thus trade relations can only be successfully resumed, for the present at least, on the principle of barter. In order to get Russia's grain, the trader must send what is of value to her, for money means nothing where it will buy nothing. For example, a certain London firm recently sent to the Ukraine a shipment of grain sacks worth one shilling apiece, and in exchange received for each sack, barley worth in England eleven shillings...
...long it will remain so is another question. The country has so long been a buffer state that the European nations have come to regard it as martial currency in their diplomatic barter and trade, and may not easily break them selves of so fixed a habit. Nor is the word of Soviet Russia to be trusted implicitly. Under such conditions, and with Germany casting sheep's eyes at the port of Danzig, Poland enters upon her first peaceful and truly organized period of existence as a republic...
...have still another dealer. A cloth merchant has appeared in our midst, selling bolts of the most value "English" goods at a ridiculously cheap rate for these days of the H. C. L. The chance for a real barter here is too imposing to miss. Visions of imported tweeds and cheviots fascinate the youthful mind, and not until the "nominal payment" is made does bitter realization dawn. Verify, there is one born every minute. And as time goes on, human ingenuity will invent other bait for the fish; may we not shortly have the privilege of hailing the affable bootlegger...