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...week when he sat down at Franklin Roosevelt's desk to put his name on a reciprocal trade treaty with Canada. By that act he served one of his most profound convictions. Nothing has ever shaken Mr. Hull's faith in the venerable Democratic doctrine of low tariff. To him a tariff fence erected to prevent men trading with other men across a man-made international boundary line is no less an economic crime than any law passed to forbid men from trading with others across a county line, across a street, across a counter...
Such an attitude is typical of the man who as President, while our foreign trade came crashing down to rock bottom, said that tariff walls cannot be made too high. It is also typical of the American superstition that a high standard of living depends upon a favorable balance of trade. Although it is almost a truism that American prosperity depends upon Europe's having enough gold stocks to keep her currencies somewhere near stability, the United States continues to believe in a mulish manner that this country must sell the world more and more and buy less and less...
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers; Joseph Turney, assistant to Joseph B. Eastman, Director of Railroads; L. D. H. Weld, research director of McCann-Erickson; Robert L. O'Brien '91, chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission and former editor of the Boston Herald-Traveler; and Walter Lippmann...
...orders. Three days later Prime Minister King hustled in to see what he could do in person. His hopes for greater success, judging by his campaign utterances, rested simply on the fact that his heart was for trade, whereas his predecessor's mind had been preoccupied with tariff. The new Prime Minister is by no means an Anglophile. His predecessor's Empire Trade Preference Agreements are one of the things that Mr. King means to alter in order to get better terms for Canada, and he is temperamentally far more willing to make trade alliances outside the Empire...
...Before going to Washington Mr. King tried in vain to persuade John W. Dafoe, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, an uncompromising low-tariff Liberal, to accept the post of Canadian Minister to Washington. His second choice was reported to be Sir Herbert Marler, for six years Canada's Minister to Tokyo...