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...built unnatural barriers between the nations of Europe and these barriers have also been sustained since the war. It was as a natural reaction to what we may call this long embargo upon their countries that students began to destroy these artificial barriers. Many thousands of European students went back from the War with the horrible experiences of this cataclysm; was it not natural that they began to think how can we prevent the recurrence of such a disaster? I do not mean that this was the feeling of the masses of the students. In some of the new countries...
...counting houses of Toyko could be heard a shrill, joyous cackling. Aged financiers assured one another over chopsticks* and rice that the Golden Sun of Japan will soon rise upon a yen restored to the gold standard. Meanwhile Japanese government officials called attention to the fact that the embargo against exporting silver from Japan was recently lifted without untoward results...
...other products listed in the resolution are or may be controlled in similar ways by various foreign countries. Brazil is protecting her coffee growers. Canada is talking of an export embargo on pulpwood to conserve her timber, etc. But at the present time rubber is the outstanding case...
...Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line, freight congestion at Jacksonville-rightly known as the gateway to Florida-has backed up traffic as far north as Savannah and Atlanta. Indeed ever since Oct. 29 the Seaboard has found it necessary to declare an embargo on all carload freight except food for human and animal consumption, railway supplies, tank cars and petroleum products. After elaborate precautions, householders can get less than carload lots of household effects through in about three weeks. An especial dearth of automobiles in Florida is reported, owing to the practical impossibility of shipping...
...Chamberlain cabled reply that the Foreign Office had the matter under close scrutiny. The strike, the embargo, continued. And the masters and merchants of the city by the sweet lagoon seemed to see a thumb at every Chinese nose...