STUDY AT GENEVA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1937, Page 7

STUDY AT GENEVA.

Fact-Finding Committee on

Raw . Materials.

BRITAIN'S GREAT INTEREST. British Official Wireless. (Received 1.311 p.m.) RUGBY January 27. The League Council adopted the report of Colonel Beck and accepted a recommendation to appoint a fact-finding committee on raw materials. The report reminded the Council that in view of the keen controversy il provokes, it is of importance that an impartial and qualified body should carry out the necessary inquiry without delay. The scope of the inquiry is to be left to the committee. It was thought that if the committee was to do useful work it must not be too large, and it was, therefore, decided to set up a central body whose chief task would be to bring out the main features of the problem, leaving a separate study of the various individual aspects, such as protection of and trade in each raw material, offundaniental importance to a later stage. During the brief discussion, Mr. Eden referred to the great interest taken by the British Government in the problem as a factor in the development of economic co-operation between nations in the interests of peace.

It was decided to leave the date of the first meeting to the discretion of the Secretary-General, M. Avenol. A provisional list of members contains the names of many economists of international repute. Britain will be represented by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, economic adviser to the British Government.