6 DECEMBER 1930, page 2

Preferential Tariffs In The House Of Commons

In the House of Commons on November 27th Mr. Baldwin moved a vote of censure on the Government for their attitude to Mr. Bennett's proposal for reciprocal Imperial Preferences.......

* * * Mr. Bennett's Retort •

The papers of Tuesday published an indignant answer by the Prime Minister of Canada to Mr. Thomas's stric- tures. He said that he had waited for a repudiation of these......

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The fact remains that there is no attractiveness in Mr. Bennett's scheme which would raise existing Canadian tariffs against foreign imports by 10 per cent., but would not lower......

Burma And Federation On Monday The Round Table Conference...

its first important decision. The urgent demand of the Burmese delegates for the separation of their Province from any future Indian Federation was met at once. After the......

The Career Of Sir Isaac Isaacs

An Australian correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that the career of Sir Isaac Isaacs bears some resemblance to that of Abraham Lincoln. Bred in the country he went to......

The Draft Disarmament Convention The Preparatory...

ceeded on its way without waiting to consider the possible psychological effect of certain decisions, and, when we write, the reading of the final draft Convention has begun.......

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Preferential Tariffs in the House of Lords In the House of Lords on Tuesday, Lord Hailsluun took up the economic cause which had been lost by the Unionists in the House of......

• • • * The South African Appointment A Statement

made by General Hertzog on his return to Cape Town throws a good deal of light on the appoint- ment of Sir Herbert Stanley as High Commissioner for Native Territories. He......

General Hertzog

Although the new Imperial Constitution is on trial— and trial cannot be wholly exempt from error—all the signs are good. Consider one of these signs. When General Hertzog, the......