Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a prestidigitator, Mr. Bennett produced a blue bag from his coat tails. Out of the bag came a big silver plate. Mr. Bennett handed it to Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin took out a red silk hankerchief. polished the plate carefully, slowly. A boy came in breathless with another blue bag containing another big silver plate. This plate Mr. Baldwin presented to Mr. Bennett. Mr. Baldwin then made a speech praising the weather. Mr. Havenga made a speech pointing out that nobody was under the illusion that he was going home with everything he wanted. Mr. Chatterjee made a speech...
...messenger buzzed in with a cablegram from the King. The delegates stood up. Galleryites craned their necks, whispered: "Is O'Kelly up?" Mr. O'Kelly was up, smiling tiredly. In a loud voice Mr. Bennett read the cablegram...
With souvenir green leather folders stuffed with postage stamps in their pockets, the delegates rushed off to catch trains and boats. Not until two days later was the Press told what Messrs. Bennett, Baldwin, Bruce et al., and King George, and the people of Argentina, Denmark, Russia and the U. S. had got out of the conference...
What They Got. Premier Bennett, shrewdest haggler of them all, went into the Conference with one supreme determination?to get from Britain the right of free entry for all natural products of the Dominions. Great Britain's tariff law enacted last March had imposed duties against foreign goods with the provision that these duties could be applied to the Dominions after next November. Mr. Bennett wanted a market for Canadian wheat, dairy products, poultry, lumber. Mr. Bruce wanted a market for Australian frozen meat. For this pair poky Mr. Baldwin was no match. Before they were through with him Britain...
...wheat into Britain profitably Mr. Bennett needed two things: 1) a preferential tariff; 2) protection against "dumped" Russian wheat. The first was not easy but it was against the latter provision that Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues fought longest and hardest. Russia is a good customer of Britain for manufactured goods. She must sell Britain something to have money to buy those goods. Finally Mr. Baldwin promised that Britain would prohibit the entry of any state-controlled commodity sold so cheaply as to destroy Dominion preference (i. e. at less than world prices). Mr. Bennett wanted the word shall used...