ACTIVE EXPORT POLICY

Evening Star, Issue 23174, 25 January 1939, Page 11

ACTIVE EXPORT POLICY

VITAL NATIONAL INTEREST EXOHANGS OF VIEWS WITH GERMANY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 24. (Received January 25, at 8 a.m.) A further warning that Britain would protect her export trade at all costs and the German views on the subject were features of the annual dinner of the German Chamber of Commerce for the United Kingdom. Dr Wiehl, commercial director of the German Foreign Office, said exchange controls and clearings payment agreements had been forced on Germany by creditors, creating the present difficulties. He considered the recent changes in Anglo-German foreign trade did not justify alarm in Britain. He thought the situation could be settled' by arrangement.

Air R. S. Hudson said: “ I disagree apropos the cause of Germany’s economic difficulties. They are due to the development of the internal market under the stress of the rearmament and four-year plan. I believe a settlement of international difficulties by peaceful negotiation would be overwhelmingly supported throughout Britain. I think we aro entitled to expect a friendly gesture in return.” Mr Hudson added that an active export policy was a vital national interest which Britain would defend to the_ limit. _ but she did not desire to achieve this to the detriment of others.