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SCOUTS 4 THE LAKE TRIBUNE SALT SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 1H37 6 Trade Agreements Paving Way to European Alliance Loopholes Created By Proposed Pacts Have Discussed V S-Brit- ment-- of d this-repub- licr We have placed barbed wire entanglements around this country to preserve the nation from another sad experience We have flneutrality act-whic- h is supposed to “prevent America from becoming involved in another conflict alien to our national interests” We have the Johnson act to prohibit defaulting nations— that is to say all major European powers which participated in the last war — from credits obtaining which would admit the possibility of starting and carrying on another war successfully Two Instruments Used But as soon as congress surrounded the United States with this barbed wire fence to guarantee our political isolation the means were found to cut 'it in certain places so as to make it possible for the forces of this country to get out and fight again for the democratic ideal Two important instruments are at the present time 'being used for the cutting of the barbed wire: foreign propaganda and diplomacy The former is manifest in many ways —lectures press news alluring suggestions of purchases from farmers and industrialists and appeals to the emotional side of the American citizens who are told of the dastardly methods applied by the European dictators mainly Mussolini and Hitler The “hands across the sea” and the "cousin” stuff used between 1914 and 1917 no longer works The neutrality act and its flaws which might enable the chief executive to play favorites in the event of another world conflagration were discussed in this column three weeks ago There is now another movement afoot to facilitate the task of Great Britain and her eventual associates in fighting their potential enemies — the junking of the Johnson act as far as the democratic countries are A reciprocal trade agreement which will pull the teeth out of the Johnson act making it inoperative with respect to France and Great Britain is being discussed by the Washington London and Paris governments “Visitors in Washington Three important men have visited Washington in the course of the last few months — Walter Runclman president of the board of trade (the British secretary of commerce) Mackenzie King premier of Canada and Lord Tweedsmuir governor general of that dominion With Walter the president discussed principally the debt question The White House guest explained to his host that a settlement of that problem as irksome for the British as it is for the American government could not be reached unless the payments could be made in kind instead of In shipments of gold This thought has been repeatedly expounded publicly and privately by Leon Blum premier of France Last August M Blum said tar this writer that he and his cabinet were in favor of settling the debt but means must be found whereby gold could be replaced by other commodities Gold payments would be detrimental he said to 'both countries the creditor nation already has too much and the other too little — This thought has been- - taken up by the British and the argument was successfully driven home by Mr Runcimtm last spring in his conversations with Mr Roosevelt Secretary Hull had a love feast with the British cabinet officer The prospect of a trade agreement was discussed at length and our secretary of state accepted the thesis of his visitor that any agreement pertaining to an effective exchange of goods must apply in the same measure in peace as well as in wartime In other words it was agreed in principle that the United States would not place any restrictions on the export of raw materials necessary in wartime provided the British agree to import them from this country under normal circumstances Financial Cooperation Mackenzie King discussed the political angle of an eventual n He entente too pointed out that in order to achieve real harmony in the economic field in addition to a free Interchange of goods in time of peace and war there must be also more liberal financial cooperation between governments and not only between banks as it exists at this moment And as long as the Johnson act penalizing Great Britain as a defaulter remains operative there is no possibility of ‘such cooperation Ambassador-at-Larg- e Norman H Davis did not spend all his time in London talking Of sugar He had frequent interviews with the mighties of the British cabl-n- et especially with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain then chancellor of the exchequer While no definite understanding was reached the fundamental principles were laid down for an agreement to be arrived at in the course of this year They are briefly as follows: The British goverrynent is willing to— study sympathetically American proposaisJora trade pact since the new neutrality law removes the danger of the president's being compelled to place restrictions on British imports from this country Furthermore The' Brltish government is willing to accept the suggestion that any trade agreement with this country should embrace the whole empire not Great Britain alone There is ample basis for a fair exchange between the empire and the United States since Britain possesses a number of essential raw materials which are indispensable to American Industry Moreover both the United States and thec British government intend to renew conversations for a settlement of the debt question This is of course nominally outside the scope of any trade agreement since any reduction of the debts must be approved by conBut to the British the gress amount they owe us is less important than the mode of payment The administration believes it will encounter little opposition from the senate If a fair sum is agreed upon and if the British are willing to pay it over a number of years out of their trade balance with the United States There are a number of other questions such as dollar-pound stabilization gold policy etc which are currently forming the Brltish-America- H VE the principles and ecode'partment pf thewasstate done about it against nomics and ’ nothing EAST that Walter Runcimatf7’'"leftrpresldent of the" British board of trade Mackenzie King center premier of Canada and Lord Tweedsmuir - gov- -- between subjects of conversations the two govemme'nts- - But as soon-athis agreement is concluded the Johnson act while remaining on the statute books of the United States becomes inoperative as far as Great Britain is concerned The London-Washingto- con- n versations are being carried out with the utmost secrecy But secret diplomacy cannot remain Jong secret these days Information percolating from London and Washington indicates that Great Britain is satisfied with the contents of the neutrality act and with the proposed debt arrangement which would shelve the Johnson act Britain now is Willing to make concessions desired by Mr Hull which heretofore have been refused Although a reciprocal trade agreement with France was signed last June it is an open secret that the French government desires to negotiate another pact as wide in n scope as the agreement These conversations will not start until the British pact has been signed The Johnson act is much more Irksome to the French government than it is to the British and M Blum or British-America- s ernor-gene- of the dominion have all visited in the course of the last few ra Washington months Blgnedrtt-wou!irisuseteMe- ed agreement take a long In tion of another world conflagration regard were still is vague a reciprocal trade And this bids fair to long time to Germany the situaless promising There private conversations Drive Out & Save! 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partment holds the position that new commercial treaty is 4 his successor will be willing to go far in the line of concessions to obtain k settlement of the debt question based on payment in kind After all the theory of payments from the surplus trade balance is nothing else but ac- - DRIVE OUT IHY1915I SUGAR HOUSE QS1E1Y The department admitted unoffithe arbitrary act of cially 11 duce defying all international agrements was the real reason why the talks had been Indefinitely postponed They have never been resumed despite the efforts An of the Italian government old treaty of “commerce"' and was denounced a few amity” months ago Now the state de- Including Stool cdh-cern- Run-cJm- a- the 2144 bassador to a -- between tal to Cut Fences Thrown Up for Guarantee of Our Political Isolation not-use- simple ’ Foreign Propaganda and Diplomacy Being Used mocracy He was somewhat astonished Not because the nations of this planet were once more preparing to jump at each other’s throats but because the United States which he considered as the only sane country on the globe was slowly drifting toward another “saving” act And in his some- what unsophisticated Martian mentality he could not quite why the proverb “once bitten twice shy” I was to good purpose by the govern- - so that as ail - By CONSTANTINE BROWN WASHINGTON— Th Man from Mara who makes a trip to earth every 20 years showed up in Washington on the anniversary of our entering the last world con' flict when America’s manpower and America’s financial and eco' nomic resources were marshaled to make the world safe for de- not the former German am-- i governments Will remain barred Dr Hans Luther' and from the financial and export officials of the state department market! 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