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...Full disclosure of the government's finances is an essential feature of democratic government." This counsel was offered to Chungking three years ago by an American friend and financial adviser, the late A. Manuel Fox, onetime U.S. Tariff Commissioner...
...arguments about the traffic to be paid on the bells. The customs men classified them as lump metal, on which there was a 45 per cent of value tax. Harvard claimed they were carillons, but, since they didn't come up to the U.S.carillon minimum of 23 bells, the tariff officials wouldn't admit it until shown the blueprints, which had empty spaces left for other bells...
...direct loans, the U.S. would remain in a position to call the tune for each debtor. The other nations, mindful of the effects of the whimsical U.S. lending tariff policy of the prewar decade, might well prefer exchange controls and bilateral barter agreements among themselves to the acceptance of "humiliating" credit terms, and those loans which do not "fit their internal needs and their sense of national dignity...
...British want the plan flexible enough so that Britain or any other nation can change the exchange value of its currency if the changing postwar world catches it again, as in 1925-31. This is Britain's particular protection against an American return to high-tariff policies. The British will perhaps give up this protection in the hope that the U.S. will not return to such policies...
...Tariff should be lowered...