Evening star., 1933-03-19

tides and currents Of international trade.
It is inoperable unless the tides and cur
rents Of International trade are flowing.
To set them flowing again rs task pre-
liminary to the re-establishnent Of the
international gold standard, as it is also
preliminary to the establishment 0f
goodwill among nations
A similar comment must be made upon
the international governmental debts.
The burden of them is in proportion
to the stir or the stagnataon of inter-
national commercial intercourse.
We must, therefore, concentrate upon
trade. International politics must be
pursued through the medium of inter-
national economies This is as true In
the Orient Is in the Occident. The dis-
turbances In the Orient have certain
deep economic origins. The political dis
contents Of Europe arise in large part out
OF certain economic dislocations. They
must have surgery and medicine. The
worlds emotional pacification waits
upon the revival of the worlds CONNER
cial health.
It should be sought-ideally-i trade
treaties signed by all nations for simul-
taneous coverings of their trade barriers.
In practice there may be a necessity for
be q necessity for treaties between even
only two countries, reciprocally bringing
trade barriers to lower level. Such
lesser treaties, however, should always
look forward to a complete ultimate
validity Of the unconditional most-fa-
vored nation" principle They should
always look forward to an increasingly
unimpeded and freely flowing economic
inteFnationaliSm.
All Of which should be approached and
attempted thoughtfuily, circumspectly,
deliberately, researchingly with ample
regard for the dificulties both Of foreign
governments and of the American Con-
gress, but nevertheless with unfaltering
effort and with firm faith.
Such Are the views frequently md
copiously expressed-of our new Secre-
tary Of State.
They are wide-world views. where
did he gain them? In Pickett Counay.
II is q place of little farms and yet Of
farms growing many diverse things.
It is place that can go far toward iv-
ing ON its own exertions and produc-
tions. It's most notable son, Mr., Hull.
never at any time in the Federal Con-
gress did anything to teach it to expect
governmental favors. He opposed even
that giittering governmental favor for
agricufturiSts, the McNary- -Haugen bill.
He at the same time maintained that
the principal proper problem of Pickett
County, Of all Pickett Counties, was gov
ernmental disfavors =
Chief Of those disfavors, he thought
and said, was an excessive tariff An ex-
cessive tariff, he thought and said, would
always tend toward an artificial advance
ment of industrial prices and toward an
artificial diminishment of the prices of
the goods of farmers.
On behalf of Pickett County, then, If
one may fatty put it so, there must be
international coverings of excessive
tariffs. On behalf of Pickett County
%AfCto AioSt Uc Wf0c-WOrtQ views. IN
behalf of the fragment there must be
the total.
This mans thought is both in the
sky and in the soil. He is in the true
line of those American statesmen who
have presented to the world an aspect
at once local and universal, at once SIM
pie and lofty.
That is the tradition in him. The
novelty in him is drawn from his shelves
of documents. Mr.. Hull will be our first
Secretary of State dedicated by study to
diplomacy of economies
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