TRADE TALKS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1939, Page 7

TRADE TALKS

BRITAIN AND GERMANY. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, March 7. Visits by Mr Oliver Stanley (President of the Board of Trade) and Mr R. S. Hudson (Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade) to B!g--lin, and by Mr Hudson to northern capitals were mentioned in the House of Commons, when Mr Stanley emphasised the general exploratory character of the conversations they would have abroad. Of his own visit he said: "I am going to Berlin in response to an invitation which I have been glad to accept to attend a dinner by the Reichsgruppe Industries, in connection with discussions with the Federation of British Industries regarding competition betwen individual industries of the two countries. I hope to have the opportunity to make contacts and to survey the general problems' of English-German trade relations with those prominent in German economic life.” He confirmed that his visit would be concerned only with trade, and that questions of a political nature would be excluded. He denied knowledge of a suggestion that any proposals about Germany’s short-term indebtedness would be discussed during the visit. He also said that the Dominion governments would be kept in touch with any developments from these informal exploratory discussions which seemed likely to be of interest to ■ them. DR. SCHACHT TO VISIT INDIA BERLIN. March 8. Dr. Schacht will shortly go to India. The nature of his visit is unknown.