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...rather the sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of our people, magnifying money and the power which it conveys as the dominating forces in our national life. . . . Nor is it a negligible circumstance that public opinion is at times insensitive to the insidious threat of moral turpitude in high places, so that even a grave offender may be retained in public office...
...result of this threat, Chairman Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee prepared to close hearings this week, predicted the Pact's ratification within a fortnight...
Spitfire speeches by Sir Oswald and his followers made "Uncle Arthur" glower for once. Jumping into the fray he threatened, in the Prime Minister's name, that the Cabinet would resign if the party censured Mr. MacDonald. Potent, this threat sobered many of the malcontents. Several begged Sir Oswald to withdraw his motion. White-lipped, encouraged by Lady Mosley's confident smile, he stood his ground, demanded a vote...
...relation of Briand's Pan-Europe to the United States is vague and unpredictable. It can be said, however, that the proposed plan constitutes a definite threat against the present American tariff concessions in the individual nations of Europe. A united Europe would be in a position to refuse more liberal tariff terms to the United States than the United States at present offers to Europe. The vision of world cooperation thus suggested is still a vision; the first fragments are in the hands of Germany until July. It is significant that the suggestion should arise from...
...Chilean budget is the export tax on nitrates. Frantically, the producers association played with price-fixing, abandoned it, watched the synthetic competition mount, in Germany, in the U. S., until in 1929 Chile provided only 25% of the world production of all forms of nitrates. A new threat loomed at Hopewell, Va., where Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. has built a vast nitrogen fixation plant which might in time outstrip even the I. G. Farben. The industry was overproduced. A long monopoly had been broken; the effects were manifest throughout the entire structure of Chilean economics. Last week, in Paris, form...