PRESSURE ON BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 7

PRESSURE ON BRITAIN

TARIFF NATIONALISM

NEWSPAPER CRITICISM

OTTAWA, 30th July. The "Otttwa Citizen" regrets signs that members of the Conference are not ready for tariff disarmament. "Australia," it says, "endeavoured to. put pressure on Britain by describing the British position as a tardy response to what Australia had already done. The British reply on Thursday gave impressive evidence to the contrary. It must be an onerous task for Messrs. Bruce, Baldwin, and Bennett to find themselves compelled to make demands where they would much rather offer mutual aid, but so long, as they regard themselves as agents of tariff nationalism they can do little else."

Tho "Ottawa Journal" Bays that Lord Hailsham was talking nonsense when he predicted the break-up of the Empire within his lifetime in the event of failure of the Conference. It points out that "the Empire is broadly based upon the will of its various peoples. It has survived many shocks. Differences may exist, but they will--pass, and as long as the Empire upholds the prinr ciples of sacredncss of contracts, faith in pledged word, justice, freedom, and fair play, Imperial Conferences may come and go with a varying degree of success or failure, but the Empire will survive."