Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1929, Page 21

b EUROPE IN DRIVE ONL.S TARFFLAW Americans at Amsterdam Conference Likely to Hear Much Drastic Comment. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. Special Cable Dispatch to The Star and the PARIS, July 6.—Two hundred Amer- Scan business men, who will attend the opening of the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce at Amsterdam on Monday, are likely to have an unpleasant surprise. There is nothing on the agenda of the meet- ing about American tariff increases, but the American delegates in private con- versation with foreign delegates are likely to hear of little else. Europeans in particular are planning to say privately to the Americans ex- actly what they think about the pro- posed revision upward of the Amer- ican customs duties. More and more the question of this new American tariff is becoming the predominant European preoccupation. It has gone far beyond a mere business discussion. It has become a matter for statesmen. Groups Planning Reprisals. Responsible ministers are making speeches about it. Committees are studying possible reprisals. Great move- ments of economic alliance and com-* mercial defense are being based thereon. | Never in recent years has the whole of Europe appeared so united on any single issue. Britain, France, Italy and Germany all seem to hold much the same views. These views, distorted though they per- haps seem, are seriously held and can be summarized as follows: Imperialism takes many forms. The newer imperialism is economic and its chief exponent is the United States, which flares haughtily about the world rattling not a saber but a bag of dollars. Facing overproduction in many lines at home, it is already beginning to try to inundate the world with American goods, often by a process known as dumping—that is, selling cheaper abroad than at home. At the same time its citizens seem to think that the sale of foreign goods in the United States is injurious to their interests, and the new tariff is designed precisely to ex- clude all foreign goods. Thus Amer- ican producers, enjoying exclusive pos- session of their own big domestic mar- ket, would better be able to push sales abroad by dumping and cutting prices. ‘War Debts Hamper Europe. Meanwhile, Europe is unable to re- pay its war debts or its commercial debit balance in goods or gold and runs the risk of seeking untransterred American balances reinvested in Europe. Americans, it is predicted, will buy buildings, houses, factories, fields, and before many years Europe will be prac- tically an American financial colony, ‘whose population will really be produc- ing for the benefit of the United States. Such a situation, say Europeans, would constitute “an intolerable abuse of economic power,” and must be pre- vented at all hazards. But how to prevent it? Reprisals and defenses suggested are various. One is the further development of European cartels, which tend to divide the Euro- pean market bétween the chief Euro- pean producers. at fixed prices, with elastic tariffs to exclude outsiders. This method has already made great head- way on the continent and it is hoped that the British Labor government will at last succeed in reorganizing British industry sufficiently to enable it also to participate in certain cartels. Commercial Treaties Suggested. Another method greatly favored is by means of commercial treaties, which M some way evade the most-favored- nation principle and establish commer- cial equality on the idea that “we will buy only from those who buy from us.” Still another reprisal suggested is that of counter-valuing duties; that is, each country would be charged the same rate that it charges itself on the same class of goods. Still another is that of definite economic ententes with all sorts of preferential arrangements for members. The Franco-German industrial alli- ance which already exists, could, it is suggested, be strengthened and de- ‘veloped, as could Britain's preterential arrangements with its own colonies and dominions. Some observers think they see in Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugo- slavia the beginnings of a little eco- nomic entente. There is even begin- ning to be vague talk of a Latin eco- nomic entente, including France, Italy| and Spain, Italy’s Attitude Changes. It is significent that Italy, which for| years has scoffed at the suggestion of European unity, is now beginning to admit the necessity for all to combine! against the American “danger.” Cer-! tain French enthusiasts like Louls Loucheur, minister of labor, in the present government, and Yves Letro- quer, minister of commerce in an earlier government, to say nothing of Aristide Briand, foreign minister, speak more and more frequently of an economic “United States of Europe,” and this conception is frequently echoed in Ger- man business circles. ¥ What seems certain is that cam- paigns will eventually be begun in sev- eral countries against the use of Ameri- can goods. The Italian Automobile Club recommends that the names of all purchasers of American cars in Italy should be published and held to shame in the newspapers. Swiss groups sug- gest. that if Swiss clocks and watches are shut out of America, then pref- erence should be given in Switgerland to French, British, Italian and German cars over the American makes, . Europe Plans Being Outlined. ‘While there is a certain amount of rancor and envy perceptible in all this talk and protest, there is determination also. Europe is slowly and unccm\ng. vet none the less surely, getting ready ! for action. However, as long as the American tariff is not actually passed by both the House and the Senate Europe will continue to hope that something can be accomplished by means of protest and explanations, official and unofficial. In this respect the business men at- tending the Amsterdam meeting are certain to “get an earful.” As for actual reprisals and measures of defense, these will only come when -apparently mo other Tecourse is open | and after careful study of all phases of the problem. (Copyright, 1929.) CHURCH AND THEATER AID PUBLIC MANNERS Both Institutions Are Credited by British Actor With Raising Public Discipline. LONDON (#)—Everybody ought to forsake the movies and go to church or to the theater once a week for the social discipline to be obtained there, says Lewls Casson, noted British actor. Both church and theater attendance have a good effect on manners, accord- ing to Mr, Casson, who believes lflllt such attendance helps people to ‘sur; render. their souls to something higher,’ and encourages physical self-control by restraint on coughing and fidgeting. - Discipline in theaters today is' far worse than it.was ten years ago, in O Cthe maving . pletures are to “Ant mo' blame,” he explained. “They permit people to talk and blow their noses as much as they like." gy g v o e e g 3 i 48 e o i e e ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, at & tempting sav- ing. Oval shape. Downstairs Store “AT SEVENTH NATIONAL 5220 1S OUR NEW PHONE NUMBE inches. 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