INTERNATIONAL TRADE PROBLEMS
IT will have been noted that Mr S. B. Morrison (Financial Secretary to the British Treasury) has stated to the League of Nations’ Economic Committee that he proposes “to submit for consideration two resolutions, the first to cover the question of exchange restrictions and quotas, and the second regarding commercial access to raw materials,” and he recommended the appointment of “a Committee composed of representatives of the Economic and Financial Committee of the League and other qualified persons to undertake a study of the entire problem of raw materials, and furnish the League with a report.” That seems to be Britain’s reply to those nations which demand that they shall be given the right to develop and use raw materials within certain territories which at present are held by other nations under mandate from the League. The territories referred to are principally held by Great Britain, and are situated in Africa —Togoland, part of Kamerun, and the vast region of Tanganyika, ex-German territories which were assigned under mandate by the League of Nations. Chiefly, it would seem, Mr Morrison’s gesture is airected to Germany, where there is a violent agitation for the restoration of colonies taken from her during the war of 1914-18. But the Germans confine their efforts to the restoration of African territories which they lost. They may, or may not, hope for the restoration of what was German South-West Africa (which the Cape Government declares it will not surrender), but they certainly hope for the restoration of those African territories, named, which they lost to Britain. Whatever Britain may be willing to concede in this relation, she does not in any way dictate to the Dominions as to what they shall do in reference to ex-German territories which they hold, and New Zealand’s possession of Western Samoa is in no way affected by the statement which has been made by the Financial Secretary of the British Treasury.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 6
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