ARGENTINA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 June 1931, Page 5

ARGENTINA

BRITISH TRADE PROPAGANDA COMPETITION WITH AMERICA UNITED STATES' ADVANTAGES (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 19th June, 8.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 18th June. British trade propaganda in Argentina is described as a veiled attack on Argentine-American friendship in a study by Mr George J. Elder, chief of the Commerce Department’s Latin American division. The report is one of four being sponsored by the Carnegie Peace Foundation. Mr Elder named Sir .Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina, as a chief proponent of Lho slogan “Buy from those who buy from us.” He also said that the visit of the Prince of Wales was designed primarily as all attack upon American mercantile supremacy. The most skilful and influential "propagandists in Argentina are British statesmen, mer chants, bankers, and others who for years have endeavoured to instil and wield influence in favour of British goods, the report said. Mr Elder added that he believed that American merchants and manufacturers have little to fear from British competition, because one fourth of America'a Argentina exports are goods that Britain does not manufacture, and half, of them are of sucli a nature that British factories cannot turn them out now at competitive prices. He pointed to the re-organisation of Britain’s entire social and economic structure as necessary before American price competition could be met.