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Houses ruled that the Navy could buy no more foreign canned beef-after Mr. Roosevelt had stung Western Congressmen last week by declaring that the Argentine brand was better than the U. S. brand...
Third Day. What Their Majesties had seen in the first whirlwind two days was mostly quaint, Arcadian stuff-a Frenchy people curious, appreciative but not essentially King-loving in the British manner. Beef-eating Ottawa more than made up for this...
...speedily approved (see p. 19). > Cutting out Adolf Hitler for the affections of Argentina is a project high on Franklin Roosevelt's "must" list. Last week he discussed at press conference a letter which he wrote to Secretary of State Hull last month. The subject: Argentine canned corned beef. To Mr. Hull the President said that the Buy American Act* would not be violated if the Navy Department were to accept the bid of Argentine Meat Producers Cooperative (a Government subsidy) to supply 48,000 Ibs. of corned beef at less than 16?^ per lb., nearly 8? under...
...cattlemen and their spokesmen in Congress exploded with indignation at this Presidential statement. In Argentina whose frozen (but not corned) beef has been kept out of the U. S. on the grounds that the country harbors hoof & mouth disease, his words were acclaimed. Said Argentine Foreign Minister Jose Cantilo in Buenos Aires : "A fine gesture ! ... An important precedent in friendly relations...
...attempting to plow the field has been inordinately rocky, as has the Mexican; and while on the latter front Mr. Donald R. Richberg is performing--apparently with increasing success--the hereculean task of reconciling Standard Oil and Mr. Cardenas, the State Department is proceeding space with canned corn beef. Such policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention in behalf of investments is either acceptable or unnecessary; and it would be highly unfortunate if short-sighted opposition from the representatives of special interest groups in Washington were allowed to defeat...