EMPIRE PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 9

EMPIRE PROBLEMS

MR. AMERY'S MASTER KEY:

ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION

"THE COURAGE OF PKEFE&.

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(Lnited Press Association. —Copyrights) " (Received 2nd November, 10 a.m.)^ ,i LONDON, Ist November.' ':'.,

The Empire Producers' Association gave a luncheon to the delegates to the Imperial Conference in the Goldsmiths* Hall. The Duke of Sutherland presided. Mr. Mackenzie King, owing to a, chill, was the only important absea»

The Duke of Sutherland, referring to the plenitude of hospitality, said that he knew the delegates' hearts were ia the right place, but what about their livers? He said that everyone had listened with the keenest interest to Mr. Bruce 's emphasis on the economic factor in Empire relationship. Mr. Coates was a worthy successor- to Mr. Massey, and had been truly called the managing director of New Zealand. The Bolsheviks in bclieviag that the Empire was on the verge of dissolution, were wrong in this, as in every other tenet of their detestable creed.

"Whore the treasure is, there shall the heart be also," he continued. The Empire's treasure was essentially the. production of trade. The Duke of Sutherland concluded with an unperceived pun, saying- that the necessity was realised for the development of aviation on a higher plane.

The Dominions Secretary (Mr. Leopold Aniery), proposing "The Guests^" stressed the importance of inter-Inv perial economic co-operation. The solution of that problem would be the mas-' tor key to solve all others. The Enipiro needed effective schemes of pub-. licity and marketing and the organisation of research. Mr. Amery said that ho personally believed in the policy of Imperial Preference, aiming at freer trade within the Empire. So far we had not the courage to "take arms against a sea of trouble and by opposing them end them," but we should. ' Mr. Coates prophesied the possibility, of the development of inter-Imperial trade. He stressed the value of co-op-erative marketing, and pointed out that the temperament of New Zealand was opposed to minimum price-fixing. Mr. Monroe, Mr. Bruce, the Maharajah Burdwan, and Sir William Hoy; (South Africa) also replied. , :