TRADE PROPAGANDISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21366, 20 June 1931, Page 11

TRADE PROPAGANDISTS

BRITONS IN ARGENTINA SKILFUL AND INFLUENTIAL (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, June 18. 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 LatinAmerican division. This report is one of four which are being sponsored by the Carnegie Peace Foundation. Mr Elder named Sir Malcolm Robertson (British Amabassador to Argentina) as the chief proponent of the slogan: “ Buy from those who buy from us.” He also said that the visit of the Prince of Wales was designed primarily as an attack upon American mercantile supremacy. “ The most skilful and influential commercial. propagandists in Argentina are British statesmen, merchants, 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 American merchants and manufacturers had little to fear from British competition, because one-fourth of America’s exports to the Argentine were goods that Britain did not manufacture, and half of them were of such a nature that the British factories could not turn them out now at competitive prices. He pointed to the reorganisation of Britain’s entire social and economic structure as necessary before American price competition could be met.