SELLING EMPIRE GOODS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20921, 31 July 1933, Page 9

SELLING EMPIRE GOODS.

♦ WORK OF MARKETING i BOARD. ! PLEA FOR EFFECTIVE CONTINUANCE. (lion eve. ov.w coKUßaroxDiKi.) i LONDON, June 15. Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, at a luncheon given by the Royal Empire Society, dealt with the report of the Imperial Committee on j Economic Consultation and Co-op- i eration. i Unless they could build up real co-1 operative machinery on a new basis, i he said, he saw nothing for it but j relations between t'.e Dominions and ; the United Kingdom similar to those ! which existed with foreign conn-1 tries, added to a strong but diminish- i ing sentiment. . In fact, the Do-! minions Office of the United King- j dom had now been divested of al- j most all influence in Dominion affairs ; beyond that which wLu exercised by j the Foreign Office in foreign affairs, i and diplomatic channels being established in the Dominions were very j similar. Outside, and alongside i this, they must have real co-opera-; tive machinery. | The report did recommend some-, thing valuable of the kind in the , two executive councils of which it i recommended the establishment:! the Imperial Economic Committee j and the Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural E. reaux, and it left the valuable Imperial Shipping Committee in being. It was now the duty of everybody who cared for the Empire to use every I power he possessed to ensure Die setting up of these two executives ; as active and living bodies, and to persuade the peoples of the Empire to entrust to them the widest possible duties. There was wonderful work for both to be done in the field of scientific research. Personality of Members. It was voluntary organisations like the Royal Empire Society to whom they looked to stimulate the gov- j ernments to obtain the maximum results from these two proposed bodies . But everything depended on the per-. sonality of their members. Here the report was discouraging because nothing had been done by the committee to promote the continuation of the two outstanding institutions which they had had to consider, the Imoerial Institute and , the Emui'-e Marketing Board. No- , where did th- point of Imperialism, ; as the free British nations under- j stand burn innr" brighf.lv than > in the Imperial under the; direction ot' Sir "William I'uvse. j Never had so remarkable a rc\olu- : tion been orod.uced in trade and : business outlook as by th° Empire , Marketing Board, to which Sir j Stephen Tallentry had brought | originality^arc! .tropins the* high-j est. order in Imperial work. I Economy was nrcessnn' at tnf ; present time, and let it be applied! to these two bodies: but at this. crisis in economic aft airs to destroy what was useful would be regarded by nosteritv as a crime. These tv o instilutiors must be k~ot alive, the Empire Marking Board bcujg, allowed to continue at least its invaluable work market uroir.o' and publicity. For a little loneer, Great Britain must bear th" burden and lead the Empire, while inter- i national consciousness was tteveloped througnout the Dominions, j Some would ioin her at once in con- ; tinuing the beneficent activities of | these two institutions, and the, others would enter through the door , left wide open for them, as they i aporeciated more and more the j value of co-operation. | Producers' Resolntion. The council of the British Empire i Producers' Organisation, represent- 1 ing the principal associations of j primary producers throughout the Empire, at a meeting held yesterday,, unanimously passed the following j resolution; , , ] "The British Empire Products , Organisation hereby places on record its warm appreciation of th. , services to primary production in. all parts of the Empire of the Em pire Marketing Eoard and the Im-. PC "In view, especially, of the high ; value to the Empire as a whOie! of the work of these Imperial! bodies, disclosed in the report of ; the Imperial Committee, the oiga-, nisation deeply deplores the con-; spicuous failure of that commiti.ee ; to make such recommendations as | would ensure the effective contmu- | ance of their activities, which, in i the opinion of the primary pro-1 ducers associated with this organisa- ( tion, form an element essential o j the economic progress of the Bntish ! Empire." . ;