CONFLICT OF POLICIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 15

CONFLICT OF POLICIES.

INFLUENCE ON WORLD TRADE. AUSTRALIAN'S OBSERVATIONS ON UNITED STATES. (CXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —B"? ELECTKIO TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received November 28th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 28. Mr H. E. Brookes, CommissionerCreneral for Australia, in a farewell statement in the "New York Times," stated: "Though Australia cannot afford the luxury of a Commissioner-General, the retiring incumbent of that oflice finds that ho cannot leave America without indulging in the luxury of a few h omely observations on what it is that draws the British Empire and the United States closer together in love, peace, and cultural interest, but yet pulls them apart in the conflict of viewpoints on international, economic, and political co-operation. My wife and 1 are not likely to forget the friends we have made in tho United States. We understand and love the spirit of America, and while being deeply loyal to the Empire and to the Throne, we consider the United States to bo our spiritual home. B or this reason we consider every manifestation unworthy of America as not American, and long for tho day when G i".'" hold the true leadership in tho world, a leadership that will ease the burden of the world There is talk of a policy of trying to extricate yourselves' by becoming more self-contained than ever, retaining the high standards of the past by living oil your own kidney fat. Such is the advice of some politicians. 'Australia is undergoing probably the most serious depression in the country's history. We are suffering, and are to suffer more, but I cannot stress too much the fact that the seriousness is for the Australian people themselves, not for those who have invested in the country's future by purchasing Government securities. Australia will carrv on.'' Mr Brookes warned readers of news reports from Australia that the affairs depicted therein were familv disputes, not an indication of the depiction of the' country's resources. lie asserted that the Australians will build for the future on an ideal plan.

Two Conflicting Forces. "Shall I tell you what is wrong with Australian-American affairs, and Ameri-can-British affairs? There is first in America the political isolationist force which is nationally-minded and exclusionist. There is the other force which is internationally-minded and inclusionist. The first builds America's tariffs and hems her in on all sides by barriers, seeking to mako her too narrowlv self-contained. The other group tinds itself restricted and" held back by the first. It is the 'Little' American who, by means of internal inflation and the closing of American markets to foreign goods, is in a considerable degree responsible for tho conditions of the present world-wide depression. We in Australia should be the last to cast a stone, since our house is built in a great measure of brittle glass, and is not unshatterable. " Wo lifted prices the same way, maintained those prices by money, and borrowed capital. For twelve years both countries staved off the inevitable, but now Australia for some time has been reaping the whirlwind, while the United States is really only beginning to feel the effects of her violations of economic, laws."