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...competition between the domestic beet bloc and the cane producers in Cuba, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. To protect themselves, the beet men for 25 years operated an intense and effective lobby to get Congress to erect tariff walls and pay subsidies. In 1934 they jammed through a quota system that gave them 25% of the 6,000,000 tons of sugar consumed in the U.S. One of their most cogent arguments for protection: a strong domestic sugar industry would be invaluable in wartime...
...production down. By the end of this year the cumulative loss may be in excess of 2,000,000 tons. Thus the U.S. was forced to turn to Cuba to try to make up the difference. Until the drought, Cuba fortunately produced sugar far in excess of her peacetime quota. Now, the only hope for an end to rationing lies in the ability of Cuba to produce a bumper crop this spring...
...gratifying to note that TIME [Aug. 20] carried a report on the recent statements by the president of Dartmouth College in support of the quota system there - particularly since most of the press completely ignored the story...
...subject them and the candidates from all other American groups, great and small, to as rigorous academic tests as are required to maintain the standards of Dartmouth. But let the "restricted enrollment" be determined by competition in those tests, and not by racial, sectional, religious, or any other quota-for which there is no real justification other than an arbitrary, antidemocratic prejudice...
Delegates promised to carry home the request, but none made a binding promise. Britain's delegation said that she would have a struggle to make up her 17% share. U.S. delegates thought Congress would approve the U.S. quota if it did not exceed 75% of the world total; but if other nations faltered, Congress might balk...