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...placing an embargo on Soviet lumber and pulp wood imported into this country because of the rumors of conscript labor, the United States is again assuming the attitude of dictating world ethics. However, due to the vagueness of the reports from Russia, one may wonder whether the Government's motives are as pure as they supposedly were in the Liberia scandal...
...testimony of Mr. Stewart is justified, the action of the United States can hardly be a result of international altruism. It is perhaps more probable that the embargo arises from a desire to eliminate business competition, especially after the alarms caused by the dumping of Soviet goods throughout the globe. Using the same pretence the Government has considered spreading the restriction to handling by convict labor. Whatever the true motive behind the embargo, the treasury is safe in placing an embargo, for as long as Washington refuses to recognize Russia, any authorized Investigators will be barred from making a study...
...company of President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and his assistant William R. Castle Jr. Also present: Hanford MacNider, U. S. Minister to Canada. Although no intimation of what was discussed was forthcoming, it was generally assumed that Liquor, Tariff, St. Lawrence River power, and a possible U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat furnished dinner conversation. Only public utterance on Mr. Bennett's visit was made by President Hoover. Said he: "We are mutually interested in the common welfare of our peoples. Informal conversations of the future always lead to better understanding...
...Ottawa that since May the Canadian Treasury has lost $15,000,000 in liquor revenue taxes, directly as agreement." a As one result of this gentleman to "gentlemen's another, President Hoover and Prime Minister Bennett may well mention liquor, must discuss the possibility of a U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat, will probably announce that they are talking about "the St. Lawrence waterway project." Indeed that stale red herring was vigorously bran dished in Government House at Ottawa to account for the Bennett visit. In Ottawa's Liberal Evening Citizen last week appeared this reference to Conservative...
...attempt to knife Canada in her wheat pit, so may Canada knife back at the U. S. with an embargo on manufactured products. Already Australia has clapped embargoes on a list of nearly 100 imports (TIME, July...