BRITISH TARIFF URGED
Action Against Dominions
(United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.50 p.m.) London, May 21. During the general debate on the Finance Bill in the House of Commons Mr George Lambert (National Labour) urged the Government not to neglect agriculture. The dominions said: “You can rely on us”; but the dominions were not philanthropists, and would get all they could for their products, he said. Mr Lambert asked the Government to use tariffs, if necessary, against the dominions, and to say: “If you tax our manufactures, we will tax overseas foodstuffs.”
Sir Allan Anderson (Conservative) said that he believed that the time was coming when the world would be ready to make a combined effort for the restoration of international trade. The Chancellor of the Exechequer (Mr Neville Chamberlain) agreed that British taxation was at a high, even undesirable, level, but he was afraid that high taxation was going to be an unavoidable evil for some time to come; expenditure was continually mounting. Moreover, he accepted the principle that trade and prosperity came in cycles. “We must look forward to the time when trade activity will diminish, instead of increasing as at present,” said Mr Chamberlain.
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Southland Times, Issue 22896, 22 May 1936, Page 7
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