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nevertheless regarded that experiment
rs one which in time would develop into
useful forum for international con-
sultation and possible international
decision.
In that calculation, as in all his cal
culations. Mr. Hull is dominated by
his central devotion to international
cooperation for loosening the bonds of
international trade. In order to secure
international trade Mr.. Hull would be
likely to make all such political con-
cessions as seemed to him to be har-
monious with the safety of the United
States. He would be all the more likely
to make then-as would anybody else
if they seemed positively to fortify the
safety OF the United States and to make
attacks upon it, or upon its possessions.
less probable
Let us therefore more closely exam
inc both the actualities and the poten-
tialities OF American international
political cooperation" under Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr. Huh
They arc both determined to persuade
the Congress to enact Law empower
ing the President to enter into treaties
whereby our tariff duties can be ad-
justed by the executive branch Of our
Government without further resort to
the views Of the legislative branch
This is a weapon which can most
certainly be used in political as well
as an economic sense. In fact. it is a
weapon which almost irresistibly will
come to be so used. Nothing would
seem Surer than that Chief Executive
who is empowered to negotiate our in
ternational economic relationships. and
who is simultaneously empowered by
IN o. tA i,,fer
national diplomatic political relation
ships. will tend to be commercially
friendly with those nations with whom
ne is politically friendly and will tend
to be cautious in the extension of trade
favors to those nations whom he re-
CARDS as politically dangerous.
A President entrusted with the es-
sential control of exports and imports
will in the end use that control not
merely narrowly for the country'S Sc
curity. but broadly and comprehensively
for its commercial and political security
considered as a total.
The proposed bill. therefore, to ag-
grandize the Presidents influence over
our international commerce is in its
interior and ultimate substance an un-
doubted step toward the possibility OF
greater iternational activity by the
United States Government in the po-
litical sphere
Again the President and his Secre-
tary of State are both determined to
persuade the Congress to enact law
whereby the President. after conSulta-
ton with foreign governments. may
impose an embargo upon the export of
munitions in times Of war crisis to any
foreign country which he may choose
to select for that visitation of his dis
approval and displeasu1e. It is to be
noted that the word munitions" has a
most elastic meaning. It could include
not only the supplies Of the battlefield
but the supplies which by manufacture
produce those supplies.
Now it is surely not to be presumed
that the President would handicap the
so-called innocent" party in war by
declining to permit him to buy supplies
in the United States. The presumption
surely is that the President would i'm
pose that disadvantage upon the So
called guilty" party, upon the so-called
"aggressor"
Which is precisely in the tone OF
the international theories and Of the