"MUTUALITY AND GOODWILL"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1923, Page 7

"MUTUALITY AND GOODWILL"

SPRIT OF THE MEETING

AN INDIAN'S 'VIEW OF TRADING.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (REUIEB'B TELKGRAM.) (Received Ist November, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 31st October. Proposing the toast of "The Conference" at a Chamber of Shipping dinner, j the President (Sir Ernest Glover) con- | demned the experiment in State shipI owning, which had contributed to the j present depression. He said he hoped, I in the interest of international trade, that there would be no repetition cf it. Tlie Maharajah of Alwiiv. ml respondI ing, emphasised that a need for a Navy w;is necessary to mercantile 1 shipping. He declarer] Unit ;\ll the tlele- | gates to the Imperial Conference recogj nised the importance of maintaining the British Navy at a sate standard and on a basis of complete efficiency. He pointed out that the communion between East and West was effected in^lndia originally as the result of trading. India only wished to remain a loyal and integral part of the Empire. Three days of the Conference had been devoted to Indian affairs; while he did not divulge the re--suits, he paid a warm tribute to the spirit of genuine friendly goodwill in which Mr. Bruce and Mr. Massey had approached the subject. Sir William Macintosh (South Africa) responded on behalf of the Economic Conference. He declared that a spirit of mutuality and goodwill was the guiding spirit of the Conference.

BRUCE'S FISCAL CAMPAIGN Mr. Bruce, in proposing "The Empire," replied to Sir \V. Joynson-Hickaa assertion that he wished "to tax corn, wheat, and meat.. He emphatically as- [ serted that he had not come to gel anything at the expense of Britain. He also contested the suggestion that prej fereuce had not been of benefit. He was grateful to the British Government/for what it had already done; and he believed the Economic Conference would shortly recommend further preference on articles which were not of vital importj ance. The wider question could be considered later; but, if he could get the ' greater thing—the affirmation that the [ future of the Empire depended on Empire markets for Empire produce—he I would go home happy, leaving it to the future to solve how the great ideal could be put into effect.