TALK TO FARMERS
WAR DEBTS AND TRADE
U.S. MINISTER CANDID
NEED FOR ADJUSTMENT
CANT EAT CAKE AND HAVE IT
United I'.^ess Association—By Electric Telfl« graph—Copyright. (Received August 9, 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 8. In an address at Stoneville, Missis* sippi, the adjustment of foreign war debts to stimulate -'the export trade in. farm products was advocated by tho Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry, Wallace, before a mass meeting of Mississippi Delta farmers. "If we want to sell farm products abroad in somewhat near the old quantities, then wa shall havo to change, our minds about debts," Mr. Wallace said. "If wo aro going to insist on tho payment of debts, wo shall have to abandon hopo of a healthy export trado in farm products for a long, loug time. "AYe need more realistic thinking about these matters of tariffs and forcigtt debts than we have had so far. I know, no group so implacable on this matter of foreign debts, for example, and at the samo time equally determined to force .farm products on tl)9 world market. AYe can't cat our caka and have it too." y' \
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1933, Page 8
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187TALK TO FARMERS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1933, Page 8
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