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...time to time the Ministry of Agriculture announces what wheat is worth, serves notice that if the price falls much below the announced figure the Government will: 1) up the tariff on foreign wheat; 2) reduce the legal proportion of foreign flour in French bread; or 3) cancel wheat import licenses. So successful has been this system that last week French farmers rejoiced in a price of $1.72 per bu. of wheat, while at Chicago the price hovered around 80? in Canada 57? But so peculiar are French politics that last week the highly satisfactory price of wheat in France...
Naturally most of the foreign devils and all foreign correspondents were furious. An exception was U. S. Commercial Attache Julean Arnold (he and other diplomatic folk can import their luxuries duty free). With admirable tact Mr. Arnold pointed out that China has only recently come to the end of a period of customs tutelage by the Great Powers. For some 80 years they held her down to a general ad valorem duty of only 5%. Now that the young Nationalist Government has squirmed out from under this galling yoke, China might reasonably be expected to do much worse than...
...emergency policy." This policy would be: 1) "Building within the commonwealth a civilization . . . largely insulated from the wrecking forces of the rest of the world," this by means of tariff agreements with the Dominions; 2) protection of the British consumer against increased food and raw material prices by an "Import Control Board"; 3) modernization and re-equipment of British industries under a "National Planning Board"; 4) postponement ("not repudiation") of Britain's War debt payments until the Mosley "reconstruction program" shall have been completed. Obviously the Conservative Sunday Express was justified in splashing out the manifesto under a derisive...
...shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
...Spanish folk songs, English foxtrots, Italian opera. He has one of those brilliantly cultivated concert tenors which are far more effective than operatic voices for the microphone. Little Dorothy Jordan plays opposite him. Cutting would have done this picture good, as many of the sequences, retained for their sentimental import, are merely tedious, and the whole thing is too long. Good shots: what the girl from the convent says when Novarro asks her if she would like to come home with him; harmonic parallelogram of nuns singing mass; the young singer, his old teacher, and their fat landlady singing...