AS IDEAL OF EMPIRE
MOVEMENT IN .BRITAIN
GROUP ISSUES MANIFESTO
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Announcing the formation of an Empire Economic Union, a representative group of industrialists, including Lord Melchett, Sir Herbert Austin, Sir Hugo Hirst, Sir B. H. Morgan, Sir Harry Brittain, and Sir Harry M'Gowan, has issued a manifesto urging closer Em"pire economic co-operation in order to secure the rapid development of the Empire's agricultural, mineral, and manufacturing resources.
The signatories suggest that the nations of the Empire must either combine as an economic unit or accept absorption in other groups, Britain entering the European group and the Dominions entering America's economic orbit. They urge that if the ideal of a iree interchange of Empire products is at present unrealisable, they should get as near as possible to it, modifying whatever is vexatious in fiscal and trading systems. They appeal to the political world for an amnesty for past controversies, leaving the Imperial and Economic Conferences free to do their best for the Empire.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11
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176AS IDEAL OF EMPIRE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11
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