Vast Demand for Goods After War
(British Official Wireless.) Received Thursday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, May 7. A forecast of the vast demand for consumer goods after the war was made by the president of the Board of Trade, speaking to-day. Shelves all over the world, even in the United States, would be empty, he said, and he thought a selective policy and control of imports would be necessary as part of a system to prevent an unregulated boom. For the first time in history Britain would be a delator country, Captain Lyttelton said. He did not regard the present war as the end of European civilisation. The power of the modern world to re-create wealth must not be underrated, but proper methods for the direction, use and distribution of wealth must be learned.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 109, 9 May 1941, Page 7
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