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...trade mission was getting nowhere. Perón, who had assumed control of all meat shipments abroad (including those of British-owned packing plants), wanted to hike beef prices 200%, asked 2½% interest on Argentina's $750 million sterling credit, now frozen in Britain. Mission Chief Sir Wilfrid Eady was surprised by this "cold hostility." He packed his negotiators across the Plata Estuary to Uruguay, waited to see if Perón would change his mind...
...week the British were lobbing trade missions across the South Atlantic like cannon shells.* The first, or 6-inch, mission was a Board of Trade venture. Suave Sir Percivale Liesching, who headed it, had already conferred with Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. But he was only scouting for Sir Wilfrid Eady's 16-inch, or Treasury mission which arrives this week. Sir Montague Eddy had come along to advise on railroads. And if the knights needed any help, there was the Marquess of Linlithgow, ex-Viceroy of India, now missioning in Argentina for the Midland Bank...
...Wilfrid and his fellow missionaries had two tough nuts to crack: 1). find some way of making good the $750 million credit, now frozen in Britain, that Argentina built up with wartime food shipments; 2) get a return on their own $1½ billion investment in Argentina...
...means a one-way deal. Said Britain's Sir Wilfrid Griffin Eady, who spent a month in Ottawa negotiating the loan: almost all the money will be spent in Canada, principally on foods and manufactured goods. Knowing that, practically all Canadians approved the loan; some thought its terms could even have been more generous...
...misery inspired by his grandfather, was not confined to theory. In 1897 he aroused Toronto with his discovery that women were sewing uniforms for Canadian letter carriers for 3? an hour while Government subcontractors made 100% profits. As a consequence, Canada's great French Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, asked King to become deputy minister of labor. King passed up a chance to teach at Harvard, and went to Ottawa...