This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...permits for export and import are bought by speculators at figures corresponding to the importance of the transaction. This is not all: the policy of restriction of the different governments on international commerce frequently has its cause in political reasons. German Bohemia (that part of Czecho-Slovakia which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...permits for export and import are bought by speculators at figures corresponding to the importance of the transaction. This is not all: the policy of restriction of the different governments on international commerce frequently has its cause in political reasons. German Bohemia (that part of Czecho-Slovakia which adjoins Germany and Austria and where Austrian Germans form 90 per cent of the population) has always done business through Vienna. The CzechoSlovak government quite naturally desires this business to go through Prague, and therefore blocks the Austrian frontier. Austria refused for a time to let saccharine from Switzerland pass through to Hungary. Czecho-Slovakia, having coking coal, will give a certain amount to Austrian factories, provided the latter will sell to them the iron and steel produced by this coke. Thus Austrian foundries are prevented from producing iron and steel for their own country. There is no such thing as buying freely in an open market for export. In their government control all the countries are alike in hostile commercial discrimination against their neighbors. The so-called friendly powers of central and eastern Europe appear to make greater discriminations because they have received under the Treaties the lion's share of the raw materials available. Consequently, they have the greater opportunity to impose restrictions against their neighbors. Owing to these discriminations the hatred of the so-called hostile countries against the allied favorites is growing from month to month and the revival of normal commerce is indefinitely delayed. The Hungarian government is especially bitter in its complaints, probably because there is more fight left in the Hungarians than in the Austrians. The Hungarian Minister of Finance compla...
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