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THE PARIS RESOLUTIONS.
In other words, & general trade £200,000,000 worth of textile and discrimination against the Can-other goods waiting in her' parts tral Powers is" to take place, to pour into this and other ARE THEY DEAD! accompanied by special com countries, so as to cripple our mercial relations between the raviving trades the moment the Mr. J. A. Hobson writes in the Allies, to the detriment of neutral war came to an end! Manchester Guardias as follows-trade,
So much for the reconstruction Mr. George's recent letter, with The third clause provides that period. As permanent measures. its Protectionist concessions, the Allies declare themselves the Allies were to make them. gives prominence once more to agreed to conserve for the Allied selvns" independent of the enemy the Paris Economic Conference countries, before all others, their countries in so far as regards the
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AT
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THE HONGKONG
held by the Allies in June, 1916, natural resources during the raw materials essential to the CIGAR STORE
be secured not
Was
to which he directly refers. It whole period of commercial; in-normal development of their has often been'asserted that the dustrial, agricultural, and mari-economic activities." The recommendations of that Con-time reconstruction, and "for this independence of the Allies ference had perished of inanition, purpose they undertake to was To having achieved their real pur-establish special arrangements to only for the sources of supply but pose in the improved economic | facilitate the interchange of these for their "financial, commercial, co-operation of the Allies for resources. This policy, if actual and maritime organisation." fighting the war. But sices wely carried into effect, would mean Then followed the ambiguous are now told by Mr. Churchill | the starvation not only of enemy statement upon which Free- that the resolutions of that Con-but of neutral countries in traders have often relied for their ference still stand, and that the the pear future. For the contention, that no explicit còm- attitude of Mr. George is in pur-Allied nations leven leaying mittal to protective tariffs suance of the Paris policy, it is out of account America, which made at Paris. It runs thus: important to recall the nature of was not a party to the Paris"The Allies will adopt the these recommendations and the Conference) have 2 virtual methods which seem to them circumstances under which they monopoly in their empires of most suitable for the carrying out were made.
many of the essential foods and of this resolution, according to Now the Paris proposals are
raw materials. It is generally the nature of the commodities and some having regard to the principles placed under three heads, the first recognised that unless containing measures for the war international rationing of these which govern their economic, They may, forex- period, the second transitory resources according to urgency policy. measures for the period of recon-of needs takes place the impover-ample, have recourse either to struction, and the third prescrib-ished countries of Europe must enterprises subsidised, directed, ing permanent measures for the be driven to despair and ruin by controlled by the Governments collaboration of the Allies. With famine and stoppage of industry. themselves, or to the grant of the first we need not concern our-Clause explicitly lays down financial assistance for the en- selves. They were necessitated that the enemy Powers shall be couragement of scientific and by the war, and have been carried subjected either to prohibitions technical research and the de into effect. But for the recon- or to a special regime of amvelopment of national industries effective character ал a pro and resources; to Customs duties struction period, which we are
cow entering, proposals are made vision "against economic aggresor prohibitions of a temporary or of a very serious import. Clause sion resulting from dumping or permanent character: or to a 2 of this section provides that any other mode of unfair com- combination of these different "during this number of years" petition." These were the days methods." The clause ends by a when enterprising statisticians definition of the object of the calculated that Germany had Allies as being to maintain and develop their economic position and independence in relation to enemy countries."
the enemy
Powers shall be
excluded from most-favoured nation treatment. and that "the Allies undertake to assure to each other, so far as possible, comperi- satory outlets for trade in case consequences deterimental their trade result from the application of this treatment.
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quite rightly, the recommenda THE ALEXANDRA CAFE.
tions as a foundation for the general tariff composed out of the various ingredients of national defence, Imperial economic unity,] fostering of British industries, and boycott of the enemy.
Now that we are given to understand that the Paris resolu- tions are still alive and that we are to be committed to carrying them into effect, an urgent protest should be made by all who realise what this committal signifies. It is a declaration of war after the war and a repudiation of the essential conditions for a League of Nations. For the preamble of the Paris recommendations declares that they are meKRUTER of defence against the "Mittel Europa
which the Central
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Powers were at that time East. Of this nucleus of a world vested in the League of Nations. alleged to be preparing domination" nothing remains. If, as a means of discipline and with the obvious object of therefore, the Paris policy is still control."
establishing the domination of the to be carried out, it cannot be one The collapse of the Central latter over the production and of defence. It would be a Powers and the proposed es- the markets of the whole world." wilful destruction of the condi- tablishment of a League of The plea was in itself both false tions necessary to give validity to Nations dispose entirely of the and ridiculous. No economic a League of Nations, and a fiat Paris recommendations, and a alliance of the Central Powers defiance of the principles of such formal repudiation of them could have established any such League, as laid down in the ought forthwith to be made. domination, and in point of factPoints and Principles of Pre-the Allied Governments, no close economic union even be-sident Wilson. The third of the All these Governments have tween the two Central Empires fourteen points is this: The committed themselves to Mr ever went beyond the period of removal, so far as possible, of all Wilson's points and proposals for
barriers, and the propaganda. But the allegation economic served the purpose of enabling establishment of "an equality of an equal League of Nations. The success of that League depends the Allies to represent this econo- trade conditions among all the upon the rigorous application of mic policy as one of "defence;”- nations consenting to the peace!
a just rationing of world supplies But what is the present situa and associating themselves fur of foods and materials during the Even more time of shortage, and afterwards
tion? The sole pretext for such
completeness of our victory, the
its maintenance.”
a policy has perished with the definite is the insistence of the an honest application, of the fourth of Mr. Wilson's five prin- principles of qual conomic economic, destitution and the ciples of settlemen: "There can opportunities and the Open Door. politieal revolution and break-up be no special selfish economic
of the Central Powers. The Paris combinations within the League, Proposals præsupposed e pesca
and no employment of any form
of economic boycott or exclusion, THE ROBINSON PIANO CO which left the chemy still strong
and imited with political and extop as the power of economic milliary control over the Na penalty by exclusion from the BO LORELESSquaron E markete of the world may be
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