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Chapter 161 – 1930 General Election: Prelude

“What’s with the frown?”

“Hm? I was just thinking if there was anything I could’ve done.”

“You mean America’s tariff barriers?”

“Yeah.”

I’m working in what used to be my playroom, now turned into my office. That’s when Yoshi-chan comes in.

The reason I was frowning was because, on the 17th, America had enacted an outrageous tariff wall called the “Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act.”

This could be called the second trigger of the Great Depression. In the end, the world would move toward a block economy.
And another flag leading to war had been raised. 

You’d frown too, knowing that.

I’d already sent letters warning the kings of the danger. I even asked Mr. Hearst to run a public awareness campaign in the form of an advertisement, questioning whether shutting America off with tariffs was really