EMPIRE PREFERENCE
NECESSITY URGED
DOMINIONS AS STRONGHOLDS OF DEMOCRACY
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October 3, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. The necessity for Imperial preference for the maintenance of the Empire was emphasised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain), who. deputised for the Prime Minister at the Conservative Conference.
"It is suggested that we should as soon as possible free ourselves from the Ottawa agreements in order to treat foreigners more generously than our own Dominions," he said. "I believe we would see the end of the Empire if that view were adopted. We are accustomed to hear of the dangers of Fascism and Communism and to speak of three great countries, namely, the United States, France, and Britain as the remaining strongholds of democracy. Are not Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa also democracies? Have not they room for a vast increase in population as soon as economic conditions justify it? Who can say how far they will have advanced after half a century in numbers, resources, arid power? The United Kingdom has no customers to compare with the Dominions, and cannot expect them to abstain from de veloping their own industries."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1936, Page 10
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199EMPIRE PREFERENCE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1936, Page 10
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