BRITAIN AND INDIA
QUESTION OF TRADE AGREEMENT STATEMENT IN COMMONS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, February 5. The Secretary for India (Sir Samuel Hoare) was asked in the House of Commons whether negotiations had yet been commenced between the Governments of Britain and India for a comprehensive trade agreement extending the principle of the Ottawa agreement to include all textiles. It was stated in reply that the matter was under consideration. As a first step the Government of India was seeking to obtain legislative authority for a Bom-bay-Lancashire agreement. The Secretary of State would then consider in consultation with the Viceroy how this and other matters might be related to the, Ottawa settlement.
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Evening Star, Issue 21639, 7 February 1934, Page 7
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