POST-WAR TRADE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 188, 8 May 1944, Page 5

POST-WAR TRADE

American Republics’ Statement WORLD-WIDE SOLUTION NECESSARY (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received May 7, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 6. The representatives of the 21 American republics have issued a statement saying it will be necessary after the war for Governments throughout the world to pursue much more liberal poli cies than hitherto if full production and employment is to be obtained. The adoption or continuation elsewhere of policies that restrict trade or divert it from its natural economic channels may r render it difficult for the American republics (o give effect to liberal, non-discriminatory trade policies. The solution must be sought on a worldwide basis. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says the statement implies a threat that the 21 American republics, which include the United States, may form a hemispheric trade bloc as a coun-ter-measure to a British preferential system if the Empire conference, now meeting in London, decides to extend its preferential trade policy to the post-war Period- '