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...about to flex its historic policy of isolation. Ambassador Davis phrased this decision in an immensely skillful double negative to weave between the hopes of Europe and the fears of Congress. The U. S. did not promise to act with Europe to maintain peace. It promised that it would refrain from hindering the actions of others. The meat of the Davis speech lay in its middle. Excerpts...
...Washington Auditorium rang with applause one night last week as President Roosevelt appeared to address the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in convention assembled. A businessman's brief talk to businessmen was the President's speech (see p. 41). His prime request: "I ask you to refrain from further reduction in the wages of your employes and also to increase your wage scales in conformity with and simultaneous with the rise of the level of commodity prices. The average wage scale has gone down more rapidly than the cost of living. [It] should be brought back to meet...
...opening of the World Economic Conference, the United States delegation will ask the Governments represented to join in an agreement to refrain during the period of the economic truce from making any material upward modification of tariff rates or enhancing any restrictions . . . against the importation of goods which would give domestic producers additional advantages over foreign producers...
...showed his desire to cooperate with the enemy, again anticipated an official U. S. move, this time by two years. At a League session to discuss world depression he proposed a pact to outlaw not only physical but economic war. Nub of the matter was an international agreement to refrain from dumping, to batter down all discriminatory tariff walls, and to require the sale of products on home markets at prices no higher than those demanded for the same products abroad. Most observers expect something very like the first two points to emerge from the World Economic Conference now brewing...
None less than the former Kaiser suddenly appeared among the forces of moderation last week. From Doorn came an official message: "Loyal followers of the House of Hohenzollern will refrain from Jew-baiting...