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...Free Trade," in the swaggering argot of desperados, meant smuggling, a crime punished by Death. To Queen Elizabeth, to Louis XIV or 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...
World Significance- European statesmen (including British) have belabored U. S. tariffs as a cause of World Depression, have charged that by curtailing the volume of world trade, U. S. tariffs have helped to make it difficult for Germany and Europe to export enough to pay Reparations and War Debts from their profits. This much is certain: The Runciman emergency tariffs will deal a major blow to the exports of Germany and Russia, a minor blow to U. S. exports (not to mention others), and may throw further out of gear the already groaning mechanism of Reparations and War Debts...
Japanese in Manchuria" over questions of evacuation and 2) "between statesmen of the Great Powers in Europe" over principles and rights involved. Sir John is a great lawyer. His plan, logical but impractical, was dropped...
...Paris last week the Council of the League of Nations muddled on & on. Great statesmen and their contributions toward solving the Manchurian crisis...
...Formal discussion for a period of two or three days can scarcely do much to unravel complicated situations that have been years in the making. Both the time element and the general situation hardly allow of more than the presentation on each side of the national position of the statesmen involved in the discussion, and surely do not allow of any thoroughgoing examination of thorny problems followed by an attempt to arrive at an acceptable solution...