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...Dominions explained that they were not asking Great Britain to adopt the double scheme of abolishing tariff barriers within the Empire and building a tariff wall around it, as has been sensationally urged for more than a year by Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere in the name of "Empire Free Trade" (TIME...
...Ramsay? Worried by the blatant vote-getting newspaper campaigns of Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, who promise Prosperity if only the Empire will go high tariff (TIME, Dec. 2), Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald let it be known last week through trusted associates that he is prepared to modify the Labor Party's traditional stand for Free Trade...
...enough not to frighten seriously stand-pat-Laborite free traders, an 8% levy might serve to hold the votes of other Laborites now tempted to bolt into the Rothermere or Beaverbrook tariff camps. The 8% scheme, it was revealed last week, has been worked out for Scot MacDonald -no great economist-by the Special Commission he appointed last spring to report on tariffs as an antidote to unemployment (TIME, March...
...immediate unemployment measure, they had agreed to boost British industry by a 10% duty on all manufactured articles entering Great Britain accompanied by a rebate for British Dominions?practically an adoption of Lord Beaverbrook's widely touted Empire Free Trade, but omitting foodstuffs...
Empire Free Trade. One Briton who rejoiced secretly at the Canadian victory of Conservative Bennett was Conservative Stanley Baldwin. He has been fighting tooth & nail to keep control of his party from the British "Press Lords" Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere with their pet policy of Empire free trade (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq). Stanley Baldwin, personally a free trader, was grudgingly forced to accept Empire free trade when popular opinion seemed to demand it. Australia's mountainous tariff and absolute embargoes, conservative Canada's high tariff policy, gave Stanley Baldwin one more chance to declare his independence...