EMPIRE UNITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21431, 4 September 1931, Page 12

EMPIRE UNITY

SUPPORT THE CONSERVATIVES LORD BEAVERBROOK’S POLICY. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) LONDON, July 10. Lord Beaverbrook, speaking at Slough on “ The Salvation of Agriculture and Industry,” said that agriculture was in a sorry plight, but there was a ..simple, plain method of bringing relief to it. “The way to do it,” he said, “is to support the. Conservative Party, because it gives every sign of an intention to carry out our policy, the policy of the Empire Crusade. : . _ “Simply, qur policy is the Unity of the British Empire, We wish to make of the British Empire an economic unit as nearly as possible founded on the economic unit known as the :United . States, In. other words. Empire Freetrade, To gain this, you will have to do more than support the Conservative Party. You will have to watch and. see that it goes straight forward, with the assurance that the Empire can be united in one economic unit, and that an appeal to the electors of Britain asking for. a mandate will be met with complete and absolute, , approval.(Cheers.) “ The Empire buys annually £2,000,000,000 worth of goods, and of that total only £900,000,000 is bought from our own people. With that brief economic statement I would bring home to you the advantage of making an economic unit of the British Empire. -'■• > “For the first time in contemporary political history- we are within grasp of Protection against the foreigner in the agricultural industry. (Cheers.) Never before has any party admitted that Protection for the greatest of all industries —agriculture—was practical polities.” : ■■■