PROPAGANDA IN ARGENTINA.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 144, 19 June 1931, Page 1

PROPAGANDA IN ARGENTINA.

BRITISH MOVEMENT IS REVIEWED BY AMERICAN.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received June 19, 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 18. British trade propaganda in Argentina was described as a veiled attack on Argentine-American friendship in a study by George J. Elder, chief of the Commerce Department’s Latin-Ameri-can division. The report, which is one of four being sponsored by the Carnegie Peace Foundation, named Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Aras a chief proponent of the slogan, “ Buy from those who buy from us.” Mr Elder 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, menchants, bankers, and others, who for years have endeavoured to instil and wield their influence in favour of British goods.” Mr Elder added that he believed that American merchants and manufacturers had little to fear from British competition, because one-fourth of America’s Argentina exports were goods that Britain did not manufacture, and half of them were of such a nature that British factories could not turn them out now at competitive prices. He pointed out that reorganisation of Britain’s entire social and economic structure would be necessary before American price competition could be met.