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...Mlle. Boulanger, for the authorities do not even supply enough money to take care of the courses already in progress. In the second place, like certain interests who are afraid of competition from foreign coolie labor, the authorities object to women on the Harvard Faculty and put up a tariff against them. Harvard Faculty women now number three--and they were only admitted after a noisy struggle...
This advice is, of course, to: 1) lower tariff walls; 2) abolish quota restrictions; 3) stabilize currencies; 4) restore freedom of exchanges; 5) balance budgets. Having dropped in at the White House and made the rounds of Europe, M. van Zeeland picked five nations as the Great Powers most apt to take what he considers the standard brands of good advice...
...Tariff War. Six years ago the Irish Free State flatly refused to pay $25,000,000 yearly for land annuities owed British absentee landlords. In retaliation, Britain slapped a penalty tariff on Irish products, the Free State retaliated in kind and a first-rate tariff war was on. Last week Mr. de Valera, according to reports which leaked out from the meeting, turned up with an almost inspired proposal. As salve to his own people, he suggested that British naval bases on Irish soil be turned over to Eire, that England be allowed to use them and other bases...
...Cardenas it was clear last week that Mexico will have much more money to spend on his own New Deal if it spends less money abroad. Because Cardenas not long ago promised that he would make no further use of his extraordinary powers after Jan. 1, 1938, his drastic tariff decree was carefully dated...
...little stopovers in London, negotiating on the quiet with Britain's Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Malcolm MacDonald, the earnest, able, bespectacled, innocent-looking son of Scotland's late great Ramsay. Since 1932 the United Kingdom and the Free State have been engaged in a bitter tariff war, each deliberately rigging its schedules to hurt the other as much as possible. Another old sore is Free State resentment at the United Kingdom's continuing to maintain British harbor defenses, "on Erin's sacred...