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...Pippins, Winesaps, Deliciouses?20,000 barrels of them from U. S. orchards were piled high in the hold of S. S. Ile de France last week when she nosed past Havre breakwater. These apples, valued at $100,000, stayed on the Ile de France. France had just slapped an embargo on all "fresh fruits, live plants or parts of live plants from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan." The embargo was officially based on the discovery of San José scale, an infectious fruit scab, on recent shipments of apples and pears from the U. S. Plant...
...Monday experienced Washington correspondents observed "great relief" in Administration quarters when Senator Borah took the limelight once again with another of his pedigreed explosions. "I do not question, of course," said Senator Borah, "the good faith of those who are urging an embargo against Japan, but I certainly question the wisdom of their program. In my opinion, the best way to advance the cause of war between this country and Japan is to do precisely what people are urging in the way of peace...
...panacea, the one upon which British Hope is pinned today, is Britain's new exclusionist embargo and tariff policy (see Parliament's Week) upon which she counts to reduce her imports. But this is not enough. She must increase her exports. How? The fundamental trouble is with the brains of British businessmen, as H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, told them again last week. They are too slow to master the U. S. methods of salesmanship...
Explaining the petition to the President of the United States, asking for an embargo on arms destined for Japan and, if existing treaties to which the United States is a signatory have been violated, a cessation of all commercial relations between this country and Japan, which has been signed by a number of members of the faculty, Professor A. N. Holcombe, first man to sign the petition, said...
...late as the 18th Century there was no such policy. "Free Trade," in the swaggering argot of desperados, meant smuggling, a crime punished by Death. To Queen Elizabeth, to Louis XIV or George III it seemed as natural to impose the equivalent of a modern tariff or embargo as to breathe. It seems so still to a majority of statesmen. That Great Britain in the igth Century took another line was due to such bold spirits as Thinker Adam Smith, Propagandist Richard Cobden, Pioneer Sir Robert Peel, Statesman William Ewart Gladstone, and to Geography...