IMPERIAL PREFERENCE
HOUSE OF COMMON'S REJECTS REPEAL MOTION.
London, July 17. In the House of Commons, Captain Wedgwood Benn proposed the repeal of the Imperial Preference Duties, lie declared that they were trifling and absurd. The policy of Imperial preference had led to economic friction, adverse to the world's peace. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply, declared that Hie object of preference was to give a practical example of Imperial unity. Its advantage lay in the growing prosperity of the oversea territories, resulting in nn increase in their trade with the Mother Country. He denied that preference had led to friction with the Dominions. Every party in every Dominion approved of Imperial preference.. The motion was rejected by 130 votes to 39.
Captain Benn then moved a motion witli the object of preventing preference applying to mandated territories. Mr. S. Baldwin, Secretary to tho Treasury, pointed out that the proposal was premature, as the terms of tho mandates wero not yet known. The motion was rejectee! by 143 vote to if).—Renter.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 253, 20 July 1920, Page 5
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