EMPIRE TRADE

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 86, 6 January 1930, Page 9

EMPIRE TRADE

NEED OF DEFINITE PLAN WORK FOR FINANCIAL EXPERTS VANCOUVER JOURNAL’S SUGGESTION A Vancouver journal, referring to the talk of English statesmen about the great thing the British Empire is, suggests ■ that practical business, political and financial experts should be set to work' on a definite Empire trade plan. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Rec. January 5, 5.5 p.m.) Vancouver, January 4. Under the caption of “Give Empire Trade a Chance/’ the Vancouver “Sun” says: “English statesmen have strutted and talked all over the world about the great thing the British Empire is, but never a word or gesture about a definite Empire plan. The British Dominions think they have something really worth while in the thing called Empire. Let England put a practical man .like Lord Beaverbrook, to work, and let him surround himself with practical business, political and financial mechanics like Lord Melcett, Mr. Amery, and Mr. McKenna, putting, the Empire on the operating table to diagnose it and find just what it is, what it can do, and how the component parts can be made to function, with each other. If it is to be an Empire of protection, let us determine which of the Dominions will do the protecting, and what proportion each Dominion will pay for that protection. If it is to be a free trade Empire, let us find with whom we can trade, just what goods we can trade, and on what basis the goods can be traded.”