WARNING AGAINST ISOLATIONISM
NEW YORK, May 14. Mr W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce, in an article in the ‘ Saturday Evening Post ’ under the heading, We Must Import To Live,’ warned Americans against dismantling trade agreements and returning to economic isolationism. He said he was sure such a course would he bad economics and, more important, disastrous politics, and insane strategy. ' Nations sharing American democratic ideals feared two things—first, a great American depression, which lie was satisfied need not occur, and, secondly, a resurgence of economic isolationism. Americans should fear those things equally, for if they re-erected tariff barriers, cut off imports, and rejected the great responsibilities of their would stop dead, and a time of -extremist ascendancy would come. He believed that reconciliation between the. conflicting economic systems was possible, b.ut it would not be achieved by hoping for the best and not preparing for the worst.
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Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 12
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148WARNING AGAINST ISOLATIONISM Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 12
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