To the official protest of the U. S. government against the now tariff law (TIME, Sept. 19), the French government countered skillfully. It declined to entertain the U. S. proposal for a treaty of amity and commerce modeled on the one recently concluded with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29). In other words France refused to give the U. S. most-favored nation treatment (rates equal to the lowest accorded to any other nation) because the U. S. makes no similar concession to any country.
Instead, Finance Minister & Premier Raymond Poincare suggested that a...
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