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...Year's Eve the Crimson will battle Iowa at Iowa City. Fortunately the Hawkeyes have lost such stars at Dick Ives, who once scored 43 points in a single contest, and the brothers Wilkinson, Herb and Clayton, both of whom were selected on all-Big Nine teams...
...delegation felt that rather too many escape clauses and loopholes had been written into the I.T.O. charter already. U.S. Chief Delegate Will Clayton said: ". . . The charter permits a greater measure of restrictionism than we believe wise, but we are willing to accept it if general agreement may thereby be attained...
...Clayton and others at Havana were fighting the good fight for a freer trade world to which virtually all delegates subscribed-in principle. In practice, this fight was a lot easier for the U.S. delegation than for those countries whose industries, state and private, saw no security or progress unless they could somehow be protected from competition...
...Douglas was more often in France than in London, digging for facts, explaining Europe's needs to visiting Congressmen, always staying tactfully in the background at a time when the U.S. was officially not intervening. When the conferees had finished, he came back to the U.S. with Will Clayton to help screen Europe's requests and draft legislation for interim and long-range aid. He wrote some of the technical and financial clauses himself, flew to Washington again this month to help sell the final product to Congress...
These accomplishments were the nearest approach yet to the great dream of free world trade, long plugged by Cotton Millionaire Will Clayton, who resigned last month as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. But despite the Geneva agreements, Will Clayton's dream was still little more than a dream...