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...propagandist, Mr. T. M. Ainscough, the Senior British Trade Commissioner in India, published last week his 1931 report. During half of that year the ''Gandhi-Irwin Truce" was in effect, and Indian boycotting of British goods was undoubtedly less effective than it has become since St. Gandhi was again jailed (TIME. Jan. 11). Dryly the Senior British Trade Commissioner set down that during 1931 British exports to India declined by more than one third...
Scarism has faintly made an entrance into the undergraduate conversations about the Sino-Japanese difficulties during the past days, while developments become increasingly critical in the East. Such mildly propagandist trends of thought will make little advance into the minds of students who reason out the relation which they bear to the problem at hand...
...equal propagandist is the conversational scarist, who peddles witticisms of drafts, who describes a feeling of boredom with academic life, and who pictures the great future of adventure and real service that comes with enlistment in an army in the Orient...
...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...
...blatant Anti-Corn Law Association led by Propagandist Richard Cobden so alarmed the Tories that Tory Sir Robert Peel was put in as Prime Minister especially to guard their interests. His enlightened "betrayal" of his landlord friends ranks with James Ramsay Mac-Donald's high-minded "treachery" to British Labor (TIME, Sept. 7). In his budgets of 1842, 1845 and 1846, Pioneer Sir Robert whittled away the "Corn Laws," reduced the prohibitory British tariffs on cattle, pigs, meat, cheese and butter. He even lowered the duty on imported stage-coaches...