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MR BALFOUR’S ASSURANCE. (By Telegraph—Frees Association. —Copyright.) XjONDON, July 11. Mr Balfour presided at a banquet to celebrate Mr Chamberlain’s birthday. A message was sent assuring Mr Chamberlain of a whole-hearted determination to carry through the policy of Imperial preference. Mr Balfour said that the most favoured nation treaties were going to cause incomparable trouble to the British Foreign Office. Their abrogation would make the British free-ti-ade policy totally impossible. Statesmen of our great Dominions had begun to realise how extraordinarily they were hampered.
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Southland Times, Issue 16785, 13 July 1911, Page 5
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