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...irascible Mirror: "Will Mr. Johnston please note that no government ... in this country is going to allow anyone to come along and buy up Great Britain at the back door." Said a letter to the Times: "What progress can be expected if the United States pursues a high tariff policy . . . and sets out to use her huge production power to export without taking payment in goods and services...
...sugar-beet harvester that tops the beets, lifts them, shakes the dirt off, drops the beets in a hopper and tosses the tops in a windrow. It makes beet-picking so much cheaper that it may end the long fight over the sugar-beet tariff...
...Dismantling of tariff barriers by all democracies (starting with the U.S., Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and the Low Countries); 2) an all-out program to dismantle cartels and to regulate corporate monopolies; 3) the setting up of a minimal supranational Government to enforce the peace...
Place to begin reform (and where it will be hardest) is the U.S. tariff: "American tariff policy is obviously the crucial, immediate factor in postwar planning. . . . The great world power cannot remain even moderately protectionist without squandering, its opportunities and repudiating its international responsibilities. Our tariff structure must be dismantled immediately and as a whole...
...strengthened by the concurrence of the U.S, and others. For the British Navy and extraterritoriality in this economic order it will be necessary to substitute collective military security and, perhaps, an international circuit court of appeals. And for gold, to substitute an international reserve bank. For free trade, a tariff structure exposed to the self-interest of all citizens. And instead of overseas lending, Britain, U.S. & Associates, investment bankers to themselves, each other and the world...