DEFINITE EMPIRE TRADE PLAN WANTED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18960, 6 January 1930, Page 9

DEFINITE EMPIRE TRADE PLAN WANTED.

EXPERTS SHOULD DIAGNOSE TROUBLE. (United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, January 4. Under the caption “Give Empire Trade a Chance," the “Vancouvcz Sun " says: English statesmen have strutted and talked all over the world about the great thing that the British Empire is, but there is never a word or a gesture about a definite Empire plan. The British dominions think that they have something really worth while in the thing called the Empire. Let England put a practical man like Lord Beaverbrook to work, and let him surround himself with practical business, political, and financial mechanics like Lord Melchett, Mr Amery and Mr M’Kenna, putting the Empire on the operating table to diagnose it and find just what it is, what it can do, and how its component parts can be made to function with each other. If the diagnosis is for Empire protection, let us determine which of the dominions will do the protecting. and what proportion each dominion will pay for that protection: if for free trade within the Empire, let us find with whom we can trade, just what goods we can trade, and on what basis the goods can be traded."