EUROPEAN TARIEFS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21161, 19 April 1932, Page 9

EUROPEAN TARIEFS.

WORLD TRADE HINDERED. VIEWS OF MR. BALDWIN. British Wireless. RUGBY, April 17. In the course of Mr. Stanley Baldwin's statement in his speech in North Wales about the number of would-be self-suffi-cient States in Europe, he said this condition had created a vast wire network of prohibitions and tariffs which were interfering more than anything else with that freer trade which was essential for the world. Continuing, Mr. Baldwin remarked that if he were nskecl why ho referred in such a way to these European units when he had advocated a tariff in Britain ever since the war, he would reply: "We never needed it more, in a. world developed as I have described, and with a mentality such as I have described, because the more those barriers have gone up the more essential it has been for each country at any price to find somo markets. "It was Britain which was paying the cost of what was being done in the rest of the world. Not until that is stopped and we can speak on terms of equality with the other countries of Europe can we begin to work for what is essential, namely, a larger economic unity and freer trade throughout the world.

"It is necessary to learn that in the long run no nation can enjoy prosperity at. the expense of other nations. Just as the. presence of one rotten apple in a basket will rot them all, so does Ihc presence of one country, economically unhealthy, prevent sound health in other countries."