Island empires are international economic middlemen situated tangential to the ebb and flow of sea commerce from producer to ultimate consumer. Their adverse trade balances must be restored by carryina other peoples goods in island bottoms by the expenditures of tourists and by the proceeds of international marine insurance. banking. and investments. If they fall to restore such adverse balances. they still have three other alternatives. to wit. war. starvation. or emigration. Britains population has doubled in 100 years. Displacement of foreign bottoms by idle Ameriqan tonnage may smash Norwegian and British triangulation. There are more Norwegians in the United States than there are In Norway. Denmark is i1923. currently reported as arranging emigration of her surplus workers to Madagascar and South America. Section 34. Jones Act. sought. through Imposition of 10 per cent discriminatory duties upofS Imports. to deflect return cargoes to American bottoms. and thus aid in the upbuilding of our merchant marine.
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