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Robert L. Rader, M.D. Cobden...
...Cobden put the argument at its sunniest: "If the minority are discontented with the existing state of things, let them set to work and exert themselves until they become the majority." Fine, unless a minority is of a different race, religion or culture, and has no hope of be coming a majority. Then there must either be continual friction, as in Northern Ireland or Cyprus, or else a guarantee of protected minority rights that a majority cannot overturn. John C. Calhoun believed the South to be such a permanent minority in need of protection. So he argued for a "concurrent...
...marriage of convenience-and have lately proved increasingly inconvenient. Since the 1880s, British politicians have dreamed of the Empire as a competition-proof common market that would forever absorb British manufactured goods and supply cheap raw materials in exchange. But it never worked that way. In 1962, as Richard Cobden protested in the early 19th century, the Commonwealth is, in purely economic terms, "but a gorgeous and ponderous appendage to swell our ostensible grandeur without improving our balance of trade...
...Kennedy's over-blown rhetoric, and all his efforts to make the fight for the Bill's passage into a new Free Trade crusade, are as out of place as Cobden's and Bright's were appropriate. They disguise a serious confusion in the Bill, between the traditional justifications of a no- or low- tariff policy, and the needs of America's economy today. This is especially true of his predictions about the Bill's probable impact on the American labor community...
...BUFFAT SR. The First Presbyterian Church Cobden...