WAR AFTERMATH
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ONLY SURFACE REACHED. (British Official Wir«U-«.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY. October 21. Tho President of tho Board of Trade (Mr William Graham), in a speech at Willcsden, said that when ho was in the Treasury in tho last Labour Administration five years ago lie was depressed by a study of tho tremendous burden of waiydebt, and ho had questioned the ability of tho British to respond to tho changed conditions following tho World War. To-day he believed that they had everything to gain by being soundly optimistic, and ho was convinced that over a large part of the world they’ had only reached tho surface of economic development. There were countries in Europe which, rightly’ guides], could carry three or four times their present population. It was only a question of seeing that their resources were used on sound and unselfish lines.
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Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 9
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147WAR AFTERMATH Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 9
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