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...years there was good reason for the South to stick to the Democratic Party, because of the party's stand on States' rights, the tariff and race relations. These reasons are gone. There is no material difference in the treatment of the race problem by the Republican Party and the present Democratic Party...
...Dallas last week Frederick Coolidge Crawford, recently elected president of the National Association of Manufacturers, dented the armor of N.A.M.'s traditional foreign-trade policy. As late as 1940 N.A.M. vigorously opposed continuation of the Hull reciprocal trade treaties, declared against tariff reductions. Now Crawford, in line with his philosophy of free competition (TIME, March 1), specifically called for the elimination of inflexible tariffs and declared: "There will be another war in 25 to 30 years if nations close up behind rigid trade barriers." His declaration raised hopes in some quarters that N.A.M. would support the extension...
Real test of Mr. Crawford's international philosophy will lie in how the National Association of Manufacturers throws its weight when the Hull reciprocal tariff policy comes up for its Congressional test this spring...
...beloved trade pacts must also be renewed or allowed to die by June. Of all early tests of the temper of the 78th Congress, this will be the most significant. Abandonment of the reciprocal trade principle would be a defeat for freedom of world markets, a victory for high-tariff isolationism. On the debate over this issue, and how it turns out, the U.S. will get its first sharp picture of how the members of both parties in the 78th Congress feel about the postwar world...
...decently human and really hardheaded if we exchange our post-war surplus for goods, for peace and for improving the standards of living of so-called backward peoples. We can get more for our surplus production in this way than by any high-tariff, penny-pinching, isolationist policies which hide under the cloak of 100% Americanism...