RAW MATERIALS PROBLEM
“ In an age when numerous Governments have a remarkable number of apprentice-prestidigitators, one must not be astonished at the way in which certain magic formulas are accepted in the world to restore universal prosperity,” said M. F. Van der Linden, member of the Belgian Colonial Council, in a recent speech. “Equal access to raw materials is one of these. We thought that raw materials had for a century followed a curve of progressive economic development and, after becoming scarce on the morrow of the war, then multiplied so that it was easier to buy than to sell. It must be that world conditions have drastically changed since’ what was true yesterday does not seem so to-day. Some countries complain and now demand exceptional, benevolent favours in this respect. The problem/of raw materials is not an isolated one; it is only a part of those affecting the circulation of capital, merchandising and labous/
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23702, 9 January 1939, Page 10
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155RAW MATERIALS PROBLEM Otago Daily Times, Issue 23702, 9 January 1939, Page 10
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