SUPPLY OF RAW MATERIALS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22003, 29 January 1937, Page 11

SUPPLY OF RAW MATERIALS

LEAGUE TO SET UP FACTFINDING COMMITTEE

ECONOMISTS TO STUDY MAIN FEATURES OF PROBLEM

(muTisu official wikei.ess.) (Received January 28, 7.30 p.m.)

RUGBY. January 27

The league council adopted the report of Colonel J. Beck (Poland), and accepted his recommendation to appoint a fact-finding committee on raw materials. The report reminded the council that in view of the keen controversy it provokes it is of importance that an impartial and qualified body should carry out the necessary enquiry without delay. The scope of the enquiry 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, the chief task of which .should be to bring out the main features' of the problem, leaving the separate study of various individual aspects, such as the protection of, and trade in, each raw material of fundamental importance, to a later stage. During a brief discussion, Mr R. A. Eden (Britain) 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 of the committee to the discretion of the Secre-tary-General (M. Joseph A vend). A provisional list of member? contains names of many economists of international repute. Britain will be represented by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, economic adviser to the Government.