ARGENTINE TRADE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17498, 19 June 1931, Page 7

ARGENTINE TRADE

BRITISH PROPAGANDA EFFECTIVE RESULTS UNITED STATUS CRITICISM (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.l (Received June 19, 10 n.m.) WASHINGTON, June 38. British trade propaganda in Argentina is described ns a veiled attack on Argentina-American friendship, in a study bv Air. George ,1. Elder, chief of the Commerce Department's LatinAmerican division.

A report, one of four'being sponsored by the Carnegie J’eace Foundation, named Sir -Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina, as a chief proponent of the slogan “Buy from those who buy from us.” lie also said 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, hankers, and others, who for yearn have endeavored to instil and wield iiilluen w in favor of British goods, the rcpo.t said.

Air. Elder added that he believed the American merchants and manufacturers have little to fear from British competition, because one-fourth of America's Argentine exports are goods Britain does not manufacture, and half of t hem of such a mu lire that BriCsh factories cannot turn 'hem 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.