Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...people ever to leave India." Actually the stingy Nizam, said to possess a miser's horde of $500,000,000 in gold apart from other wealth totaling $2,000,000,000, is not exactly his people's joy, much less that of his ministers. One of these harassed statesmen, when asked, "Why do you always arrive at the Palace in a Ford?" replied, "I am afraid that His Exalted Highness might consider my Rolls Royce a present to himself." By this and other means the Nizam has acquired 400 motor cars. His favorite Rolls Royce and his private railway...
...third failure, the assembled statesmen knew, would be catastrophic for League prestige. To prevent failure two Great Powers sent bigger men. Britain's new Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, replaced her former delegate, Viscount Cecil who last week took a back seat. For the U. S. famed Prentiss Gilbert, who sat with the Council in Geneva not daring to open his mouth, did not sit. Instead last week Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes opened and shut his resounding mouth in a nearby Paris hotel, represented the U. S. so potently that Council statesmen gathered in his suite for what almost...