. Review of reviews and world's work . vent it. A freenation should have the willingness to performthe greatest sacrifices to save the liberty of evervoppressed nation, as every act of oppression, ifit do not meet with opposition, becomes a menaceto those who themselves do not yet suffer oppres-sion and look indifferently on the oppressionsuffered by others. The v^orld war has revealed on a giganticscale the solidarity of the peoples prizing theirfreedom. It has been recognized in England thatthe independent existence of France is an indis-pensable condition of English freedom. It hasbeen reco
. Review of reviews and world's work . vent it. A freenation should have the willingness to performthe greatest sacrifices to save the liberty of evervoppressed nation, as every act of oppression, ifit do not meet with opposition, becomes a menaceto those who themselves do not yet suffer oppres-sion and look indifferently on the oppressionsuffered by others. The v^orld war has revealed on a giganticscale the solidarity of the peoples prizing theirfreedom. It has been recognized in England thatthe independent existence of France is an indis-pensable condition of English freedom. It hasbeen recognized even in America, Australia, andSouth Africa that if freedom should be stifiedin Europe, it would not be able to hold out any-where. But nowhere is this solidarity of thenations thirsting for liberty so necessary as amongthe Slavonic peoples, who separate the Musco-vites and Germans. For these peoples there can-not be liberty without the closest solidarity. 530 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS PRICE-FIXING AS SEEN BY A PRICE FIXER. PROF. F. W. TAUSSIG(Chairman of the Tariff Commission) IN the Price-Fixing Committee of the WarIndustries Board, created in March,1918, Prof. Frank W. Taussig, of Harvard,Chairman of the United States Tariff Com-mission, served as a member. This commit-tee was one of the three governmentalagencies that attempted to regulate pricesduring the war, the other two being the FuelAdministration and the Food Taussig contributes to the Quar-terly Journal of Economics (Harvard) aninteresting account of the Governments ex-periments in price-fixing, as conducted bythese three agencies. It appears from his survey that Govern-ment price-fixing during the war was notuniform in its objects, and, instead of beingguided by established policies, was in themain opportunist, feeling its way fromcase to case. Of the three agencies. Pro-fessor Taussig finds that the Fuel Adminis-tration, dealing with a single commodity, wasable to proceed with
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