OUTSPOKEN DISSENT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 13

OUTSPOKEN DISSENT

MASS KESTKICTION BRUCE STIRS CONFERENCE

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LONDON, July 21.

Mr. Stanley Brace's unexpected and outspoken dissent from virtually the entire Conference work roused the Plenary- Session. He said: "For this Conference to have achieved nothing but limitation of production or the plan of a campaign in that direction is, indeed, an admission that the Conference has at present failed in the policy of price-raising upon - which it erabarked. We are not desirous of being associated with such action which, instead of benefiting, quite possibly may ultimately prove disastrous." :

Mr. Bruce intervened at the outset of the seriatim discussion of the Commission's voluminous report, declaring that, although Australia did not disscjnt from the report, iff desired to clarify certain aspects as to Australia's attitude. Dealing with co-ordination and production of marketing, Australia greatly regretted that there should havo been such concentration upon limitation. Australians refused-to believe for one second that the real object of the' Conference was raising prices by mass restriction of production. Australia was prepared to consider action where the circumstances were exceptional, for example, tremendous stocks, but only as part of a coordinated plan with the endorsement of the producers of the countries concerned. The Governments could not initiate or control, nor could primary producers alone' operate it.

"Australia," he said, "dissents entirely from the dairy produce report, whereby no useful purpose can be served."

Mr. Bruce culminated with! a striking declaration: "This report presages a Government on the basis of Socialism, Fascism, or Communism. Australians decline to be a party to anything,of this kind."

The speech made the Conference blink. It was probably the Conference 's"> most outspoken utterance.

The Italian delegation who are Fascists, M. Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, and several foreign Socialists sat bewildered as Mr.- Bruce castigated their creeds.