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...continents. They permit the consideration of creating an Inter-American Court of Justice, of "measures tending toward closer association of the American Republics ... of co-operation with other international entities," of rules regarding the rights and duties of neutrals, of limitations of armament, of codifying international law, of tariff truces, customs agreements, financial co-operation and simply of "other measures." How Cordell Hull can shape these vague suggestions into a concrete program is a great question mark, but they exactly suit his temperament. No New Dealer, yet loyal to the New Deal, he held his peace during...
...years U. S. motor manufacturers have urged lowering of the U. S. tariff on cars, with the idea that only after this was done could they win reciprocal tariff cuts abroad and break heavily into European markets. Today, with the U. S. tariff on imported cars down to a trifling 10%, they are being bought for fun and swank in commercially negligible quantities. U. S. makers watch foreign imports in a mood of amused tolerance far different from that of automobile men overseas. In the United Kingdom the industry is so scared of U. S. and even Canadian competition that...
...shipments whose tariff was at least 30? per 100 lb., the Eastern roads had offered free pick-up & delivery. They also offered shippers who handled their own pick-up or delivery a 5?-per-100 lb. discount. "Rebate!" screamed truckmen. After a month's cogitation, the I. C. C. decided in favor of the railroads, except for the rebate clause. When truckmen still yowled, this permission also was suspended...
Last week the I. C. C. finally made up its mind. On shipments whose tariff is a minimum 45? per 100 lb. all railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio may provide free store-to-door service, offer the 5? self-delivery discount. Key to the decision-a signal victory for the railroads-was the discovery by the I. C. C. that less-than-carload shipments had risen briskly in the West and Southwest, thus proving that the public wanted the service...
...government, must be revamped. In these things, as in relief and public works, definite, workable plans must be substituted for general charges. Similarly, the Republicans must make specific their programs for peace, neutrality, and the limitation of war profits, make definite their retreat from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, their objections to out-Stimsoning Stimson in the Pacific...