Show QUOTES COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters BRITISH NOT ANTI by ANTHONY lord privy seal THE T HE british are not anti any nation in europe they are not hostile to any people nor do they regard any as antipathetic to them the british people have hane never been good haters their inclinations have haie always been to forgive and tor for get at once sometimes indeed this readiness has even seemed a I 1 atle in comprehensible to those who have been our comrades in arms but it is an es sentral element of the br dr t sh charac ter As in the past so today we aie not anti any nation but we should be and must be anti any who might seek by force to break the peace we shall always ah ays be found arrayed on the side of the collective system against any government or people who seek by a return t to 0 power politics to break up the peace which by that system we are seeking to create and let us not forget that the covenant itself provides the machinery whereby a peaceful set of international disputes can car be secured ADJUSTING TARIFFS by CORDELL HULL secretary ol 01 state I 1 WISH to call your attention particularly to the decline in this current year of our exports to many of our best consuming markets in europe thus our exports to eu rope in january and february of this year declined 16 per cent I 1 in n relation to that of january and february rebr uary of a year ago if we place embargoes upon our imports we shall in the last anal ysis witness inevitably the destruction of our export trade seized with an unreasoning fear whenever a small driblet of imports of a compe competitive tithe nature comes over our tariff wall even when under purely temporary or accidental conditions such as for example the drouth ac tion Is urged which it if followed too frequently may lead to retaliation by other countries so that st step ep by step such action may lead straight toward a corn com embargo of imports all around and s nee one country 8 S imports are another count country rys s exports a like cm em bargo of exports all around RURAL RELIEF by REXFORD TUGWELL under secretary of agriculture 0 SAVE the land and the theople TO people who depend on n it is an inspiration in which all ot of us 11 it seems to me can join it particularly transcends party creed and class I 1 should like to see the adminis tra lion of the present program carried out in such ways that this common consent can be won and kept so that our names will be blessed rather than bitter in our chil children dreas s mouths months and I 1 am willing to take this kind of pledge but I 1 am not willing to say that it if vested interests or partisan politicians begin a fight which involves this movement we shall not fight back we believe in this thing and we are determined to see it through BALANCING THE B BUDGET U by ROBERT lafollette U S senator from wisconsin IP F WE had had the courage to tax as heavily in this country as they have done in great brit ain aln we would have had a balanced budget both in 1933 and 1934 those who are most anxious to bal ance our budget are most often those who protest vociferously against any attempt to increase taxes upon wealth and income in accordance with ability to pay the conservatives therefore who are arguing that this government should follow the example of great britain and attempt to balance its budget are in a completely inconsistent position until they are ready to accept the tax burden necessary to accod that end CURRENCY WAR by SIR PERCY BATES chairman cunard line HERE is war today THERE tsal sal war the weapons are not navies armies or airplanes but tariffs quotas and shifting currencies there is no authorized standard of na lional money exchange and each change in a tariff quota or currency Is nothing other than a hostile move in this war IN arst of all the situation Is not officially recognized as a war other wise we might have had a peace con ference with far better possibilities for the g good od of mankind than the disarla ment talks in geneva AAA PROGRAM by HENRY A WALLACE secretary of agriculture THOSE HOSE who charge the AAA with inducing scarcity simply do not know the facts the amer can farmer alwaes has produced enough food for every man woman and child in the united states and I 1 am sure he will ill continue to given a chance to stay on his farm and in business the adjustment programs program have cut down production for an ex port market which no longer ex ats they have not deprived the people of one ounce of necessary food service |