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MR. BALFOUR’S PREDICTION MR CHAMBERLAIN’S BIRTHDAY BANQUET. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, LONDON, July 11. Tho Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, loader of the Unionist party, presided at a banquet held to celebrate Mr Joseph Chamberlain’s seventy-fifth birthday (Saturday last).
A message was sent assuring Mr Chamberlain- of tho whole-hearted determination of the party to carry through tiro policy of Imperial prefer-
Jlr Balfour said that the treaties containing tho most-favoured nation clauso were going to cause Incomparable trouble to the British Foreign Office, and their abrogation would make tho British free-trade policy totally impossible. ‘•'The statesmen in our great Dominions,” added. Mr Balfour, “ have begun to realise how extraordinarily they are hampered.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7851, 13 July 1911, Page 7
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113TRADE PREFERENCE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7851, 13 July 1911, Page 7
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