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...British quids and Dominion quos of the agreement signed...
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...
...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 in the pledge. The British stubbornly held out for will. Cried British Delegate Lord Hailsham: "What do you think we are? Thugs whose word cannot be taken...
Unable to speak for himself to the public last week because of Conference se crecy, Mr. Stevens was much in the company of Col. Leopold Stennett Amery, onetime Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in Great Britain, today a lobbyist. "We," said Col. Amery. "are not advocating anything so extreme as the old Bryan formula of 16 to one.* But much would be accomplished if governments would put a better silver content into their subsidiary coins and if they would allow their central banks to hold some silver as a backing for their currency issues...
...Kelly, "to continue to pay to Britain an annual tribute which is more, much more, in proportion to population than what Germany was obliged to pay under the Young Plan. . . . The Irish people have always aspired to complete independence. . . . They accepted the Free State [equivalent to 'dominion status'] as an alternative to the renewal of war." In Dublin just as Finance Minister Sean Macentee was about to promulgate the tariffs authorized by the Dail last week "he collapsed in his home from strain and was ordered to bed for several days by his doctor" while his undersecretaries...