EMPIRE UNITY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20419, 14 December 1931, Page 11

EMPIRE UNITY.

ggCIPROCAL TRADE agreements. OF MR BENNETT. AM) CONFIDENCE IN 1 BRITAIN. ■■ nt M ASSOCIATION— BY ELECTIIIO W i E( jsAPU-corxaiGHT.) December 13th, 7 p.m.) HALIFAX. December 12. . of a centralised Empire is no longer live in a political We must now see to it that and resources are thrown enterprise of building and vLrffcening an economic union," Mr Prime Minister of Ciui- \ on arrival here to-day from He declared that the Mother pudyiras meeting her problems -with CTorage and confidence, and that *«oi»g Economic Conference at SLEreuJd probably be the most ini2S#rent of its kind ever held withjfS, British Commonwealth, fie Statement of Mr J. 11. Thomas, zgjuy of State for tho Dominions, HE" he told tho House of Commons If fiieit Britain was committed to ot a wheat quota was dis!Li* gratifying, said Mr Bennett, jSI that it marked the adoption of SpC&l trade agreements within the people of Great Britain are ufr* forward with great interest to LjMerial Conference. The date can--tt» fixed, of course, until after the elections. With the adopted the Statute of Westminster the jffOlitical Empire disappears and jSgwfcere I went in the Old Land I people looking forward to the gSjfrrrtT-- i n the belief that we will jglfiOtteva the foundations of a new empire. ' temSH POLICY. jjUUSHING BETTER TRADE. Juved December 14th, 12.45 a.m.) m,, LONDON, December 13. ■By will be no bolting the doors £t; fine," announced Mr Neville at Birmingham, referring ' tfit Ottawa Conference. "We are ijfifiirthe conference determined lb shall not start until we have , -S- yn agreement which will not Sp fttoongc inter-Imperial trade H&-, most important for the '&|K future, but will also estab£i||te<lmperial relations on a new based on material interests ifiprtting than anything hitherto