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Newton D. Baker, Wartime War Secretary, arose and said: "Almost ten years have gone by and we are beginning to see the real meaning and the precious fruit of the struggle. In the Old World, at least, men's minds are constructively working for peace. . . . Whether this or that nation joins or does not join them means more, no doubt, to some of us zealots than it really does in the long run to the cause...
...tariff rates on French exports are works of art (under 100 years old), 20% ad valorem (that is, upon the U. S. valuation), silk wearing apparel, average of 60%; walnuts (France exported $4,861,000 worth to the U. S. last year) 4¢ per pound unshelled, 12¢ shelled; precious and semiprecious stones (not including pearls), 10% ad valerem on uncut stones; perfumes containing alcohol 75% ad valorem plus 40¢ a pound; perfumes not containing alcohol 75% ad valorem; soaps and soap preparations from 15% to 30% ad valorem. These are the chief French exports...
Seventh Day. Harassed on the one hand by harsh fatigue, on the other by the passing of precious time, Schlee & Brock swung the Pride of Detroit into the air from Bagdad and flew to Bender Abbas, Persia...
Reminding the assembled U. S. Laborites that "the fathers of American liberty allowed precious little democratic freedom during the War of Secession," he referred to the ogre-like pictures drawn of Bolshevism in foreign countries. He concluded: "Go back and tell your fellow citizens, if you will, that the Soviet is not so bad as all that, and although the Communists are the chief enemies of private property, when they make agreements with capitalists they will fulfill them honestly...
...those tears are precious, for they show that the grace of God and the tenderness of Jesus have at last wormed their way even into the hard, flint-like heart of a scorner and a scoffer...