BEVIN EXPECTED TO OFFER EMPIRE PREFERENCE CUT
LONDON, March 12. The Foreign Secretary (Mr Ernest Bevin) is expected to announce at the Marshall Plan conference of the 16 European nations in Paris next week that "Britain is to make sacrifices for the sake of Western European economic stability, and that these will include the reducing ol Imperial preferences. Various cuts will be made, not in the immediate future, but over a period of years. Mr Bevin and the Minister oi Economic Affairs (Sir Stafford Cripps) have conferred on the Foreign Secretary’s statement and paper on Britain’s plans for “moving into Europe.” It' is understood that Mr Bevin will acquaint the Dominion High Commissioners with his speecli before he leaves for Paris. The British Government’s view is that if the European Recovery Programme is to succeed, Britain must identify herself more closely with the economics of the Continental nations and “gear her life to Europe.” Mr Bevin will leave for Paris on Sunday night for the Marshall Plan conference which opens on Monday.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1948, Page 5
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