Paris, June 17. jeany quarters to alarm over p able foreign reciprocal action which might cut down American exports and thas farther intensify the uaemployment. situation though supporters of the bill declare the slump to be unconnected the "LAveniv'" a newspaper closely connected with Under Secretary for Economics M. Francois Poneet pud-lished a startling manifesto to-day asking the French people to. boycott American goods as a reply to the new United States customs tant Senator Smoot and Representat~ ive Hawley, sponsors of the. Smoot-Mawley Tariff which becomes effects ive at midnight to-night, have dis-dovered a ""joker" in the: measure whereby refined sugar can be imported at a lower duty than ray, thus encouraging the establishment of sugar refineries in Cuba, They expressed the belief that something should be done in this ¢onnection but declared action to be mporvible in the few days remain. ing of che regular session of Con-ress.
'The situation is not without its Humourour aspect as far as Seni Yor Sinovt is concerned, since he tomes from Utah and is popular' considered the spokesman for United Statee sugar beet interesta, Reed Smoot, Senatorial the signature evident to-morrow, declared the sudden drop on the tock market was not! we fact that the tariff just een parsed by Congress.
He that the dill will have splendid effect" upon business and the forme'
Barber in the day he had a ce President Hoover, but, he Yold newspapermen that they had spot eiecursed the tant, Which, the paper says, is noxious to Europe in general and to France in particular. While not going this Tength, most of the Paris. pa-Economies 'M. Frangais. Ponet. pabpers now urge the institution of a pan-European tariff and economic ce-operation of Europe against the United States.
June 19, his paper "1'Ere Nouvelle" the former Premier, M._ Herriot, appeals to Europe to unite against the new United States tariff, Unless this is done withen delay, the former Premier asserts, Europe must inevitably perish because her industries will be ruined and her countries reduced to misery fand unemployment by having to) Pay to the United States ander the: existing reparation and debt-funing agreentents without, on the other hand, being able to supply the United States with roads, of the Prensa with but few exceptions, nce the bitter attacks en the States tariff policy with low pressing for a boy: ott of American goods with the Sogan "If the United States close their ports against our
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