Until the conclusion of the Canadian agreement all. tariff news had come from the State Department. The President took the Canadian agreement under tis own wing at the While House. He persuaded Mr Mackenzie King, the Canadian Minister, who had come to Washington for the final stages of the negotiations, to return in order to give the signing of tke agreement a" touch of the dramatic. The ceremony was performed before news reel cameras and about 200 newspapermen. The Cant dian Prime Minister, the Secretary of State and the President made litle speeches, while the entire Cabinet sat behind the President to. lend solemnity to tke occasion. When the terms of the agreement were made public two days later the Presi dent again' took matters Into his own hands and held what as he, Jokingly referred to as a class In advanced Aconomics. Correspondents sat with pad and pencil while tke President expounded the terms of the treaty, taking great pains to show that even for states "which - might consider themselves harmed ther: were corresponding advantages. The President, in fact, showed a remark able anxiety to have a good press on the treaty and avert criticism from affected (and therefore disaffected) groups. Yet taken all in all the re-@uctions and cuts were of no very: rear severity and at the best only, restored the American tariff to. the' rates existing before tke Hawley-Smoot rates were The agreement, "however, critsion by which th polley of the country will be determined. If the results are good then. High Protectionism in. the United States and in Canada will have been. dealt a body blow. The very fact, that two countries whose basic ducts were so very similar were able to negotiate an agreement at all has neouraged American now girding their Joins optimistically to tackle the negotiation of -an agreement. with Great Britain,
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