MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN.
e . •A BIRTHDAY BANQUET. Bj Telccraph—Press Association—Oopyrtehl London, July 11. Mr. Balfour, Leader of tho Unionist Party, presided at a banquet held to celebrate Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's 75th birthday. A message was sent assuring Mr. Chamberlain of the whole-hearted determination of the party to carry through the policy of Imperial preference. ,
Mr. Balfour said that the commercial treaties containing tho most-favoured-nation clause were going to cause incomparable trouble to the British Foreign Office, and their abrogation would make tho British Free-trade policy totally impossible.
"The statesmen in our great Dominions," added Mr. Balfour, "have begun to realise how extraordinarily they are hampered."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1178, 13 July 1911, Page 5
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105MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1178, 13 July 1911, Page 5
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