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...give much attention to foreign policy the Man of the Year nonetheless concluded a new treaty with Cuba which wiped out the Platt Amendment, put U. S. relations with that country on a new basis, improved relations with all Latin-America. From Congress he got power to make reciprocal tariff agreements to promote foreign trade. But up to last week only one such agreement (with Cuba) had been signed. In November U. S. exports were worth $195,000,000 (devalued dollars), up $11,000,000 from a year earlier, although, calculated in old gold dollars, U. S. foreign trade...
...Viceroy and British provincial governors "emergency powers" to do whatever they like in whatever His Majesty's Government wisely deems an emergency. In one of the noblest passages in last week's great state paper, the Linlithgow Report advises that the Viceroy be empowered to veto any tariff measures which Indians may advance "only if, in his opinion, the intention of the policy contemplated is to subject trade between the United Kingdom and India to restrictions conceived not in the interests of India but with the object of injuring the interests of the United Kingdom...
Staggered by the losses which American foreign trade has suffered during his administration, President Roosevelt in a message to the National Foreign Trade Convention, announced his sincere intention to seek unified action in breaking down the artificial tariff barriers which now thwart the healthy exchange of commodities. Any successful rehabilitation of American commerce must consider the South American market, a rich market long closed to American industry by the enterprize of German and British merchants and the stupidity of Washington diplomacy...
...develop these resources and to divert the ever increasing flow of trade to their own countries. Not until the third decade of this century did American interests begin to concentrate attention on the possibilities of the Latin market and to demand diplomatic assistance in the form of favorable tariff agreements. Yet the majority of these negotiations failed to achieve any satisfactory results because the state department refused to enter into reciprocal tariff arrangements. Today, the South American countries demand that trade be conducted on a reciprocal basis, and there is substantial evidence that the grant of preferential treatment by Great...
...Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President Harding made him Undersecretary of State, later Ambassador to Belgium. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador to Italy. He got the job of taking President-elect Hoover on a personally conducted tour of South America. Ultimately President Hoover made him Chairman of the Tariff Commission, a job which he did not like and held for only a year...