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...most original recent programs, the Teacher Corps and the Rent Supplements Bill. Moreover, these bills had to be so watered as to cripple them both. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a weathervane of Congressional opinion, felt free to kill Johnson's bid to lower tariff's to Eastern European nations even before it could obtain a sponsor...
Perhaps the most persistent problem confronting Common Market negotiations has been how to collect and pay out huge sums for farm subsidies among the Market's six nations as they unify their agricultural systems with common prices behind a common tariff. Indus trial West Germany was, for obvious reasons, reluctant to agree on high farm subsidies. And farm-rich France was not about to agree to anything that might deprive the French farmer of so much...
Though the country's imports are still growing faster than exports, the Chancellor promised that Britain will scrap its 10% tariff surcharge in November. The surcharge on imports has run into much criticism, particularly from Britain's trading partners in the European Free Trade Association...
...like Calhoun, underwent a complete reversal of his political position. Just as Calhoun began his career as a nationalist. Rusk started out as a doctinaire isolationist on the State Department China Desk just before World War II. Pearl Harbor, apparently, had the same traumatic effect on Rusk that the tariff of 1828 had on Calhoun, for today Rusk has re-emerged as the champion of "globalism." Rusk believes that the effect of personalities must be eliminated from international affairs and that the affairs of men must be managed without passions. And yet, like Calhoun, his head-over-heels reversal...
Time for Position. Gronouski would like the U.S. to lower tariff barriers with Eastern Europe and grant to the countries he visited the "most-favorednation" trade status already extended to Poland and Yugoslavia. The sticking point, inevitably, is the war in Viet Nam. Though Lyndon Johnson has drafted a trade bill that would remove statutory tariff restrictions against Eastern Europe, it has been quietly shelved. Congressmen, especially in an election year, do not care to risk a "soft on Communism" label. That leaves Bridge Builder Gronouski frustrated. "This is the time to get into position," he told reporters in Budapest...