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...Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin who put through this amazing Act (TIME, April 14). With as deeply rutted a single-track mind as Lenin's or Mussolini's he has highly resolved that Australia shall reverse her unfavorable trade balance, cut down her spending and resultant borrowing abroad, and rescue the Australian worker from unemployment by forcing the creation of new home industries. Australians shall raise birdseed, crush peanuts into butter, perfect their imitations of Champagne, build snorting locomotives, and jump homemade Stump Jump Plows...
...England. He ranks today as the foremost Liberal "elder statesman." And last week the Empire was again made acutely Isaacs-conscious. In Melbourne, Australia, that vigorous, strong-faced old jurist, Sir Isaac Isaacs, is Chief Justice of the Dominion. He it was to whom Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin turned last week, seeking a new governor general. Never before has Australia had an Australian governor. Her present ruler, Baron Stonehaven, came out from England with viceregal dignity...
Because Australian Laborites definitely routed Australian Nationalists at the last election (TIME, Oct. 21), Mr. Scullin now feels strongly enough, as "his majesty's prime minister in Australia," to advise George V to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs the new governor general. If given, His Majesty must take the advice. It was a question last week only of whether Sir Isaac Isaacs would consent to accept appointment. With deliberation becoming to a Chief Justice he pondered all week, kept Mr. Scullin, Dominion, King and Empire waiting...
...Scullin tariff imposes a 50% supertax on numerous importations including cigarets, locomotives, spirits, matches. Eighty commodities are totally barred from importation by one of the stiffest embargoes ever imposed...
Barred are radio sets, electric and gas heaters, various farm implements and a list of perishable foods from cheeses to lemons. Definitely the Scullin policy scotches English hopes for any system of "Free Trade Within the Empire," means that English radio set builders will be excluded as rigidly as Americans, Germans, Japanese from competing against Australians...