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summoning the international monetary
and economic conference, are striving
to effect q governmental international
front against national governmental
ism! In the explication Of that para
dox lies the conferences ultimate sig
nihcance to the human race In this
generation and In the next.
The national recommendation which
will be attacked by the international
and economic conference be-
gins with tariff duties-snd then goes
On from there almost limitlessly.
The first act Of the new ultra-na-
tionalistic and ultra -goyernmentalisttc
Hitlerite administration Of Germany
was not an onslaught upon the Jews.
It was an arbitrary limitation Of Inn
ports Of foreign vegetable fats for the
manufacture Of oleomargarlne. It was
an effort to diminish the eating OF
foreign fats and to compel the eating
Of domestic butter. It was not accom-
panied. however. by any REIMBURSEMENT
Of endeavors to push domestic German
commodities into foreign countries a
exports.
Governmental Duplicity.
In virtually every important country
In the world that childish duplicity of
governmental encouragement Of trade
with foreigners through exports and
Of governmental disbursement of
trade with foreigners through imports
has reached now q peak of prepos-
tsrcusneSs. The government OF Canada
enters into agreements called the Of
tawa agreements. whereby 1t dis
eliminates agair3t imports from nQn-
British countries. It hereupon almost
simultaneously prints IN Canadian news
papers an advertisement informing
Canadian business men that It Is their
their exports Of Canadian goods to all
countries.
At Washington We spend money OF
Tariff Commission In order-amoni
other things-to see to 1t that NO dut.
liable foreign product shall enter oul
country without being loaded with Z
tariff tax which will deprive it oi
any inherent advantage which 1t maj
possess because Of q lower foreign thar
American cost Of production. At ths
same time we spend large quantitie.
OF money on q Bureau of Foreign an<
Domestic Commerce In order-amOn(
other things-to add public energy K
private energy In the invading o
foreign markets with American good!
backed by Governmental IS well q.
commercial Super-SaleSmanShip.
Economic Aggression.
1t Is called isolation. It Is not &C.
curately 50 called. The japanese anS
the Koreans throughout protractet
periods In the past were true isolation.
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they also permitted no exports. 1t Wa:
Q policy perfectly consistent within
itself and perfectly peaceful To TIN
Western world. at Its peak Of science
and Of education. there was left tht
dubious honor Of inventins the ides
Of striving to capture the foreign mar.
ket and the foreign purse without
allowing the foreigner to have . cor.
responding access to domestic pur-
chasing power. That idea Is not
economic isolation. 1t Is economic ag.
gression. 1t produces universal
economic war.
When. At London in June. the slip.
Of paper which contain the mapping:
Of that war are passed about from
hand to hand at the international
monetary and economic conference
table the ghost OF the intergovern-
mental debts viii begin to take body
One Of the most outstanding feature,
OF those debts Is that they add sup
Elementary fuel to the flame OF the
economic war in which imports are
artificially contracted and exports are
artificially expanded through extreme
governmental Intervention.
Once begun. that warfare. like Ill
warfare, produces in each benigeren,
country a mounting hostility to for
eigners and q mounting desire to erect
a national economic structure which
will stand securely unaSSailable far
above the level Of the storms OF sup
posed foreign designs Of conquest
Economic belligerency between coun-
tries thereupon comes to its climax in
socialiStic governmental aids and con-
trolls of industry and Of agriculture
within countries.
This development Is spectacularly