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...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, Dec. 2 et seq...
...Laborites that this new panacea will prove an unbeatable vote getter. But fear is not in pallid, crippled Philip Snowden. With the courage of an epileptic or a madman (though he is neither) he defied the Great Powers at The Hague Conference and won (TIME, Aug. 19, 1929 et seq.). Last week he forced the Prime Minister to let him at the Imperial Conference. A speech was announced in which Mr. Snowden was scheduled to tear what the Dominions proposed to tatters. If courage could win for Free Trade the battle was already won?but ballots will decide...
...Birkenhead would quietly retire like most Lord Chancellors when his term expired, he rushed back to stumping for the Conservative Party. Grateful for such dynamic aid, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, lazy, muddling, made him Secretary of State for India in the last Conservative Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 10, 1924 et seq...
...crisis, that conditions would have been much worse. He lavished praise upon President Hoover for the "prompt and effective" steps he took last November to minimize the effects of the stockmarket crash by holding a series of White House conferences on public works, wages, employment (TIME, Nov. 25, et seq.). Declared Statesman Stimson: "As a result of this the ship of business was held steady. . . . That was intelligent, carefully planned leadership. ... It prevented the immediate panic which threatened...
...Quirinal. But, "man of iron" though he is, the new secretary general's head is comparatively clear. He will scarcely make such a mistake as the Fascist murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti in 1924?the crime which nearly wrecked Il Duce's regime. (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq...