CANADA'S POST-WAR AIMS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 236, 3 September 1943, Page 2

CANADA'S POST-WAR AIMS

(Roc. 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 2. Mr Mackenzie King's Parliamentary Secretary (Mr Brooke Claxton) in outlining Canada's policy emphasised that Canada would like to see a British-American-Soviet post-war agreement. He added that unless the three Great Powers work together one group will attempt to set up Germany again as a buffer State, with policies equivalent to appeasement and isolation all over again.

Mr Claxton pointed out that before the war Canada sold more to Britain than she bought from her. Canada bought more from the United States than she sold. Now Canada buys twice as.much froni the United States and pays cash for it. Canada is supplying Britain without payment with twice as much as she used to sell to Britain. Canada has more than doubled her national income since the war and has reduced her external debt by more than a billion dollars. Canada has become the largest per capita food producer of the United Nations. Although she has become highly industrialised Canada will not compete with Britain's specialised exports after the war. See "Canada's Policy'".—Page 5.