Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three principles of Imperial defence must be recognized: 1) The deep interest of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand and India in the provision of a naval base at Singapore as essential for insuring the mobility necessary to provide for the security of the territories and trade of the empire in eastern waters; 2) necessity for the maintenance of safe passage along the great route to the East through the Mediterranean and the Red Sea; 3) the necessity for the maintenance by Great Britain of a home defense air force of sufficient strength to give adequate protection...
Conservatives. The Conservative Party is virtually split. One section supports free trade; the other a vague protectionist policy. The latter is headed by Premier Baldwin and is committed by the Bonar Law pledge to a general election. The former contains such men as Lords Derby, Robert Cecil, Salisbury, who are anxious to maintain the Administration until after the passage of the House of Lords Re-form Bill, which has been the morceau choisi of the Conservative Party for years. This Bill is designed by the Conservatives to increase the power of the Lords...
...necessary, consent to serve under his old chief, Mr. Asquith. Surface indications, however, disprove this contention. Mr. George, immediately after landing in England from his U. S. visit, began a campaign against tariff protection and the Baldwin Ministry. He is not an out-and-out Free Trader, but Free Trade has become a convenient political weapon for him and he has seized it. With this plank in his platform, the hidden one of national unemployment insurance, and the popularity he has derived in Britain from his U. S. tour, Mr. George is in a strong position-stronger than Mr. Asquith...
Hereafter Economics 9b, a course on international trade and tariff policies, has been given in the second half year at 2 o'clock, and for that reason it was impossible for many men engaged in Crew, baseball or track to enroll...
Americans would doubtless look on the inauguration of a policy of "Imperial Preference" with a mixture of pride and fear. They would be able to point out that the English economists of the nineteenth century who so soundly berated Americans for not adopting a policy of free trade were now deserted by their own countrymen. Still, it would hardly be pleasant to contemplate a triumph in economic theory which might seriously affect profitable trade which we flow enjoy in wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position...