ARGENTINE AND THE EMPIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 188, 11 August 1930, Page 6

ARGENTINE AND THE EMPIRE.

A great exhibition of British goods is to be held in Buenos Aires next year,- and active preparations are now under way at Home. Since the successful economic mission conducted by Lord D'Abernon a few months ago, British producers- have taken a lively interest in South American trade, arid vigorous efforts are being made'to capture the Argentine market. No doubt the concessions secured through the D'Abernon mission will assist in this direction. But from the Imperial point of view a" word of warning seems necessary here. It is to be hoped that the advantages offered to Argentine producers will not in any way prejudice our inter-Imperial trade. Sir M.'Robertson, recently British Ambassador at Buenos Aires, has written to the "Times" pointing to the immense amount of British capital invested in the Argentine, and urging that this South American State, "though not in the Empire, should be regarded as of it." If this view of things is worked out to its logical conclusion, it may conflict most seriously with the great conception underlying Imperial Eeciprocity—the ideal of our Empire held together by "a community of material interest," based on racial and national a H d ] °y.alty'to the -Motherland..' ..,