COLONIAL DEMANDS
RETORT TO GERMANY
BRITAIN AS "HAVE-IJOT"
COUNTRY
NOT EXCLUSIVE UNIT
(British Olßclnl Wireless.)
RUGBY, April 27.
In a speech at Portsmouth last night, Sir Robert Home, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, referred to Germanyls recent demand for the restoration of her former colonies. Dealing with German suggestions that the British Empire had become an exclusive unit, he recalled that last year Britain bought £32,000,000 worth of goods from Germany and that on its part Germany bought cnly £21,000,000 worth from Britain. The Empire bought £54,000,000 from Germany, against £42,000,000 which Germany bought from the Empire.
"There is no country that could be better described as a 'have-not' country than Great Britain. We do not control our Dominions. In getting foodstuffs and raw' materials from our Dominions we have to pay for them, and Germany can get them in exactly the same way and by exactly the same methods," Sir Robert-declared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 9
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