FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT
LIES IN CO-OPERATION
TASK OF ECONOMIC COMMITTEE.
.(UNITED FHJSS ASSOCIATION—COPXBIQHT.);
(EEDTEP.'S mEGBAH.)
(Eeceived 19th Match, 9 am.)
LONDON, 18th March.
The Imperial Economic ■ Committee held its first meeting at the officeß of ihe Board of Trade. Sir Philip Cun-liffe-Lister, President, of the 'Board" "of Trade, welcoming the Empire-wiSo representatives, emphasised the importance of the development of Imperial resources and mutual trade. He promised that the Government would do-its iiU most to assist the work of the committee. .. ,
Sir Halford Mackinder, chairman, in replying, emphasised the fact that'the terms of reference indicated that"; the chief competitor with which the. committee was. concerned was • the ■ ■ foreign ■ food supplier, not the. Home producur in Britain. The committee, therefore, would endeavour" to secure that the foodstuffs of Britain came as far as possible from inside the Empire.' The committee was an experiment in Empire cooperation, not an attempt at Empire government. The future development of the Empire, both in trade-arid-con stitution, lay in the application of. tha principle of co-operationv ■■•' ..:
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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