INTERNATIONAL GOODWILL

Evening Star, Issue 21169, 1 August 1932, Page 9

INTERNATIONAL GOODWILL

GROWING SPIRIT AMONG NATIONS SPEECH BY PRINCE OF WALES (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. RUGBY, July 29. When the Prince of Wales visited in London the International Congress on Commercial Education, at which thirtyfive nations are represented, the president (Mr Charles Boisserain, of Holland) introduced him as First Commercial Ambassador of the World. During his address the Prince said that the hard lesson of adversity had taught them that the prosperity of all nations depended on the prosperity of each. In these days of swift transport and communication and interlocked commerce and finance it was increasingly true that nations could not live to themselves alone. “ This truth is penetrating the minds and Government policies and the actions of nations in a growing measure. Recently it has been demonstrated most happily at Lausanne. This international conference may well express its delight that at Lausanne the lamps of hope and confidence lighted by a spirit of international co-operation and goodwill were burning more brightly than at any time within living memory. For this we may all bo profoundly grateful. The world-wide trade depression and economic disturbance have been largely caused by maladjustment of distribution. The potential output is far greater than ever before. If all employable labour was employed for a reasonable - number of hours per week the world would have at its disposal a volume of commodities and services that would enable the entire population to live on a higher level of comfort and well-being than ever before contemplated in the rosiest dreams of the social reformer. The urgent task is to bring consumption and production into proper relationship. It is not a simple but quite a possible task.”