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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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to recognize the necessity of pulling
together for the benefit not of one
particular nation, but for the bene-
fit of all mankind.
Fewer Restrictions.
There have been many signs indi-
eating that the conference was run
ming along in deep ruts, getting no
where. A refreshing note was struck
the other day by the United States
delegation when its chairman, Sec
rotary of State Cordell Hull, made a
clear and blunt statement to the eff
feet that the best way to facilitate
International trade, and thus national
prosperity, would be to remove the
barriers and restrictions now making
such trade difficult.
1t is characteristic of the trend of
the times and of politics-that such
statement could be issued by rep
resentatives of a country which, more
than any other, has maintained high
tariff walls to the detriment of trade
generally. The American statement
a
icy of the last four years as any one
might wish, for until March of this
year the Washington demand was al
ways for ample protection" which,
in effect, meant prohibitive tariff
rates so high that no country could
hope to sell much of its goods here,
and so high that nearly all countries
adopted retaliatory measures, declar-
ing that when America would not buy
from them, they would not buy from
America.
MOley Comes.
Believing, with deeper reasons than
any other American, that the con-
ference has struck a snag, President
Roosevelt has sent to London his
trusted adviser, Raymond Moley, as
sistant secretary of state, who arrived
there this week carrying definite in
structiOns for the guidance of the
American delegation.
What these instructions are, no one
outside official American circles is
in position to know at this moment,
but it is pretty general impression
that Moley has been charged with
the task of encouraging the delega-
ton not to desert the principles which
Mr.. Roosevelt has laid down.
1t may be-and so it is conjectured
in London-that Moley has been in
structed to demand of other nations
that they go just about as far as the
United States in trying to alleviate
the economic crisis, for instance, by
the lowering of tariff walls. Amer
lea, formerly willing, indeed, anxious,
to set the world high-tariff example,
now wants to lead in the opposite
direction, but only upon being assured
that other countries will follow.
Against Cooperation.
Almost every time steps are taken
to insure American participation in
the solution of important world prob
lens, opposition arises here at home.
This present occasion is no exception
to that rule, for many politicians and
not few newspapers, led by the
Hearst press, protest against the
United States becoming "entangled,"
as they like to call it, in foreign
affairs"
They have completely misunder-
stood the spirit of the age which calls
for desertion of traditions that may
have been valid a hundred or a half
hundred years ago, but which most
certainly are without value now.
Formerly, it was each man for him
self, each nation for itself. 1t is diff
ferent now, and the keenest minds
among diplomats and political econo-
mists realize that selfish motives in
international affairs are naturally
prejudiced, therefore dangerous to the
world as whole.
Gold.
In London the conference not only