EFFECT OF ELECTIONS
SYMPATHY WITH EMPIRE
BENNETTS OPINION
OTTAWA, 30th October. The Prime Minister, Mr. B. B. Bennett, plans to reconvene the Imperial Economic Conference in May or June. The New Zealand election and the sessions of the Imperial and Canadian Parliaments prevent a meeting before that date.
The General Election in Great Britain, with a preponderance of Conservatives elected, together with their expressed intention of giving effect to the principles of tariff protection and wider Empire trade, is 'regarded, by political observers here as bringing into onico in the United Kingdom an administration calculated to listen sympathetically to the Empire preference scheme as enunciated by the Prime Minister, Mr. B. B. Bennett, at the second plenary session of the Imperial Conference in London.
On that occasion he declared: "I offer to the Mother Country and to all parts of the Empire preference in the Canadian market in exchange for a like preference in theirs, based upon an addition of a 10 per cent, increase on the prevailing tariffs or upon tariffs yet to be created.
"In a. universal acceptance of this offer, and in like proposals and acceptances by all other parts of the Empire, we shall attain to the ideal of Empire preference."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 13
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205EFFECT OF ELECTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 13
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