RECIPROCITY AT OTTAWA

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 30 January 1933, Page 5

RECIPROCITY AT OTTAWA

INFLUENCE IN THE FUTURE. I OPTIMISM OF ME. BRUCE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 28. “I have not yet overcome my affection for the British Empire, and 1 much prefer that description to the British Commonwealth,” said Mr. •Stanley Bruce, < Australian Resident Minister in London, in proposing the British Commonwealth in accordance ,\ ith the toast list at the Birmingham banquet given by the Jewellers’ am • ilvci\smiths ’ Association. Every Briton overseas lie added, had been thrilled with pride at the courage and integrity shown by the Britsli people during the past two years a-hen British finances had been the most important factor in the affairs oi the Empire and the world. The Ottawa Conference meant a complete revolution for the members o the Empire. Ihe policy which Australia and Canada adopted was a po! icy of sanity. “You were wedded to free trade as chough it were a. god,” Mr. Bruce con•htded, “but wo. were wedded to protection as though it were a super-god. The arrangements made at Ottawa are roing to mean reciprocal arrangements inch as we have never dreamed of in the past.”