PREFERENCE FOR SOVIET

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 99, 23 October 1924, Page 5

PREFERENCE FOR SOVIET

COMMENT OF "THE.TIMES."

(PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES.)

(Received 23rd October, 9 a.m.)~ '■ n. ;; r''LONDON; '22nd October. 'The Times" points out that the most remarkable feature of the Labour Party's manifesto- is its almost 'complete silence on Empire subjects. Why, the paper asks, ■ does it fix its gaze 'so ardently^ on Bolshevik trade, and coyly avert it from the more promising Dominion markets? "Why the enormous Bolshevik preference, camouflaged under a guarantee loan) ;when a trifling preference on a few insignificant Dominion commodities is rejected? During the last three years' IS millions of Britain's countrymen in Australasia and Canada imported from Britain more than 170 millions worth of goods. Preference is not the only subject in which the Government seemed to contemn Empire opinion. Though it is able to pledge 30 millions to obtain visionary toade from Russia, economy forbids it finding . a million for the . Singapore Base, which Australasia deems essential for security. Labour plumes itself on Lord Pannoor's Geneva Protocol, without troubling about the Dominions' view, especially its bearing upon the vital matters of Oriental immigration.