TRADE RELATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 7

TRADE RELATIONS

ARGENTINE MISSION

REASSURING SPEECHES

EFFECT OF OTTAWA

(British Official Wireless.)

February 13, 10 a.m.)

RUGBY, February 11,

The Prince of Wales, who was last night present at the Argentine Club dinner in honour of Dr. Eoca and other members of the Argentine Special Mission, spoke in both Spanish and English and referred to Anglo-Argentine trade relations on which members of the mission will shortly begin discussions with the British Government.

Tho Prince said that he was confident there would be no difficulty in convincing the mission and their countrymon that in. everything done or agreed to at tho Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference and since tlie British Government had kept Argentine interests very much in their minds: He added: "I am not saying thai our action has been purely unselfish, but I ask in what way can our prosperity:— prosperity of one of the greatest markets in the world—bo bad for other people? How can it be other than good for tho Argentine? And how can tho Argentine fail' to benefit from measures taken not to injure the world's moat industry, but to improve it. Agreements made at Ottap must not in any wa,y preclude negotiations with other countries for mutual benefits, and Argentina is naturally one of tho first countries we want to negotiate with." NATURAL COROLLARY. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. W. Eunciman, who was one of the Ottawa delegates, also referred to Anglo-Argentine trade relationships. He remarked that each one of his .five colleagues throughout the whole of\the Ottawa Conference was conscious that the relationship between' Argentina and Great Britain was so intimate that it could not lightly be interrupted, and they would try to do ; nothing which would interfere with that relationship. What.they proposed to do during the next week or two was the natural corollaiy.of the Ottawa Conference. Indeed, all they had to do was to put on paper terms upon which they could more nearly draw their trading interests together, and niore fully meet \he requirements of the two nations. The members of the Argentine Mission yesterday made a tour of the Port of London, cruising in a motorlaunch through some of the main docks and up the Thames. They were < entertained to luncheon at the Mansion House <by the Lord Mayor. A reception at the Argentine- Embassy was held in the _ evening, and members of tho c" Sb ltm later dined ■"'ith the Argentine

Members of the mission are spending the week-end at Welbeck Abbey as guests of the Duke of Portland