BRITISH TRADE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 20 June 1931, Page 6

BRITISH TRADE

Activity in Argentina ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES A CRITICAL REPORT WHAT WILL TIIE PRINCE SAY? .Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Washington, June IS. British trade propaganda in Argentina is described as a veiled attack on the friendship between the United States and the Argentine in a report compile I by Mr. George Elder, chief of the Commerce Department’s La'in American Division. NAMING NAMES The report* names Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina. as a chief proponent of the slogan: “Buy from those who buy from us.*’ He also states that the visit of the Prince of Wales was designed primarily as an attack upon American mercantile supremacy. VERY WELL DONE The most skilful and influential coin me: vial propagandises in Argentina are British statesmen, merchants, bankers and others, who for years have endeavourvd to instil and wield llieir influence in favour of British goods. LITTLE TO FEAR Mi. Elder adds that he believes American merchants ami manufacturers have, little to fear from British competition because one-fourth of America’s exports to the Argentine arc goods that Britain does not manufacture and half of them of such a nature that British factories cannot turn them out now at competitive prices. TIIKN IN’ 11 Y ( OM PL AIX ? Mr. Elder points to the reorganisation of Britain's entire social g,nd economic s rueture as necessary before American price competition can be met.