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...rising winds of Tariff v. Free Trade-now certain to be the issue of Britain's next election-three quivering political straws bent and whipped last week, prophetic, significant...
...Ramsay? Worried by the blatant vote-getting newspaper campaigns of Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, who promise Prosperity if only the Empire will go high tariff (TIME, Dec. 2), Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald let it be known last week through trusted associates that he is prepared to modify the Labor Party's traditional stand for Free Trade...
Obviously the canny Scot was testing public sentiment with a trial balloon, but he let it be said that he now favors enactment of a blanket 8% tariff on all imports, even foodstuffs and antiques...
...enough not to frighten seriously stand-pat-Laborite free traders, an 8% levy might serve to hold the votes of other Laborites now tempted to bolt into the Rothermere or Beaverbrook tariff camps. The 8% scheme, it was revealed last week, has been worked out for Scot MacDonald -no great economist-by the Special Commission he appointed last spring to report on tariffs as an antidote to unemployment (TIME, March...
Bankers Disagree. Headed by a great Liberal, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, but mustering many a Conservative in their ranks, 118 leading British bankers and industrialists issued a manifesto last week calling all schemes to ring the Empire with a tariff wall "little short of suicidal...