Evening star

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Canada, Australia, Union of South

Africa and New Zealand, whose

legates are not ambassadors? The

answer to each question, of course, is

no, just as it is to the question

whether we are not grateful to the

people of Luxembourg for their anti

German stand, or the people of Costa

Rica, Guatemala, Dominican Re

public, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua

and El Salvador for ranging them

selves on our side in the war. In

time, they probably will all have am

bassadors here.

Ominous Parallel

A Brookings Institution study of

the French experience with price

control has brought to light some

interesting and ominous parallels

with our current effort to stabilize

living costs.

Generally, the French experiment

has not been successful, and it has

failed because the government

lacked the courage or the ability to

deal impartially with strong political

pressure groups. Instead of ap

pruacuing biie piuuinn wiwi a view

to protecting on an equitable basis

the interests of all the French peo

ple, the government made special

concessions to the farmers and the

city 'wage-earners, the principal

pressure groups in France and in

this country. The result, according

to the Brookings study, was that

price-control objectives rarely were

achieved, and then generally at ihe

expense of the retailers.

This fatal defect—preferred treat

meat for farmers and organized

wage-earners—was plainly evident in

this country's first attempt at price

control legislation, and it is now

conceded that the effort failed for

this reason. At the moment, Con

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1942). Washington, D.C., 1942-09-22. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1942-09-22/ed-1/?sp=8

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1942-09-22.