THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 22, 1938
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EMPIRE AS OBJECT LESSON FOR THE WORLD
London, To-day.
The Dominions and Colonial Secretary, Mr. Mal- colm Macdonald, spoke last night on the "Bri- tish Industries Fair, 1939” in the series of broadcasts entitled "Empire Exchange." The talk is to be repeated to-morrow (Friday) night.
Mr. Macdonald particularly mentioned the healthy co-operation between members of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
"There is one thing," he said, bought from Empire countries. "which distinguishes the peoples of the Empire in particular from the peoples of the world in general.
TRADE BARRIERS They had persevered in efforts to remove the barriers to international "In the whole span of human trade in general and to their own history there has never been so export trade in particular, by nego- much talk of strife and warfare. tiating agreements both with Em-
""There have been moments in pire and foreign countries.
Another notable victory for this very year, owing to conflicting interests between one people. and sound trade relationships between was the Anglo-American another, when we all stared calamity nations in the face.
Trade Agreement, which, would also stimulate world trade Reuter.
MAY COME ́ AGAIN
"We may stare that calamity in whole. the face again unless the pepples of the world can learn. to co-operate together.:
"That is where the British Em- pire has so priceless a lesson to teach. Its manifold teeming peoples are as diverse as any race on earth. Left to themselves, their interests too would clash as easily and as frequently as those of any other collection of peoples.
"But they have certain things in common-their citizenship of the British Commonwealth of Nations and their loyalty to the Crown.
SENSE OF COMRADESHIP "These attributes they share have brought them together, have given them a sense of comradeship and have taught them to co-operate | together until co-operation amongst them is becoming a habit which would be hard to dissolve.”
The British Industries Fair, said Mr. Macdonald, was one of their co-operative efforts. The Fair pro- vided an opportunity of advertis- ing amongst the traders of the whole world the whole range of the Empire's industrial output.-
Mr. Macdonald mentioned that almost half the United Kingdom's £522,000,000 worth of exports was sold to Empire countries, while of the United Kingdom's $1,029,000,000 worth of imports, 39 per cent. was
NEW NAVAL AGREEMENT
London, To-day.. An Anglo-Scandinavian Naval, Agreement, following the lines of the London Naval Agreement, was signed at the Foreign Office yester- day.
The Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish Ministers signed on behalf of their respective coun- tries, and Lord Halifax and Lord Stanhope for Britain. Wireless.
British
U.S. AMBASSADOR
Kunming, To-day.
Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, U. S. Ambassador to China, left Kumming yesterday morning to return to Washington by way of Burma Central News
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