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...Anglo-American negotiators agreed to do as much as they could to break down bilateralism and expand world markets. The proposals for an International Trade Organization (ITO) which the State Department's shrewd Will Clayton drafted months ago got full British support "on all important points." This global trade charter, sent last week to other nations for study, outlined plans to revise or abolish such trade restrictions as import quotas, export subsidies, tariff preferences, cartels and dumping schemes...
...implement the proposals, the U.S. will call a meeting next spring of some 15 "nuclear nations" who do the great bulk of the world's trade. Purpose of the meeting: to cut tariffs as much as possible, lay the foundations for a conference to establish ITO next summer...
Said one Michio Ito, late of Los Angeles...
...noble-minded Hirobumi Ito (1841-1909), who drafted Japan's toothless constitution; who, almost alone among the Japanese of his time, realized that one might deal with the West "by diplomatic give and take"; and whose civilized hopes were used to throw dust in the eyes of the Western World while others plotted the violent future...
...through Asia and bred in the U.S. varieties which will prosper in each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...