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When members of the International Chamber of Commerce started for their fourth annual congress in Stockholm last week, there were grand hopes that that organization of practical financiers and businessmen would make definite moves towards smoothing out the international exchange of commodities, of breaking down or at least lowering national tariff walls...
...Stockholm, Sir Alan Garrett Anderson, acting president of the International Chamber of Commerce congress, made an eloquent appeal for tariff reductions: "We generally speak as if someone besides ourselves were responsible for trade barriers, but frankly, must we not admit that we manufacturers and producers of goods sold in all countries, we and the men and women of our employ, are the real force behind the trade barriers? We producers have labored to protect ourselves, our products and our wage standards, and trade barriers are the methods we chose. Alas for the futility of human hopes and even interests...
...International Chamber of Commerce financiers and businessmen at Stockholm had generalized as adroitly as did the politicians in Geneva...
...Stockholm show was grand. Flags flew from poles on the Norrbro, the bridge which leads to the Swedish Houses of Parliament. One of the cleanest and most sanitary cities of the world was greeting its foreign visitors.* In the Concert Hall where the convention proceedings opened, the great organ played for 20 minutes. Then Axel F. Wallenberg, onetime Minister to the U. S. from Sweden, spoke (in English): "I have something to say to the representatives of the United States. . . . Allow me to say a few words as a Swede. In the name of my countrymen I thank...
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his wife, who were in the Stockholm Concert Hall listened with obvious pleasure. King Gustaf, also there, applauded vigorously...