BRITAIN & AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1937, Page 11

BRITAIN & AMERICA

TWO POSSIBILITIES BEING

CONSIDERED

LONDON, June 1

The "Morning Post" states that th* Imperial Conference is considering two possibilities on the question ot Anglo-American trade relations, -first a grand-scale, commercial understainding between the Empire and America which would be tantamount to the English-speaking countries entering into economic co-operation,; with an Anglo-American trade agreement as the central and pivotal factor, and, secondly, a series of bilateral pacts between England, the Dominions, and the "United States.

So far theso. major questions have only been discussed in the broadest sense possible. The outcome will probably be a compromise constituting a series of bilateral pacts ■ based on and interlocked by a common understanding and agreement on certain major principles. Clearly, however, the delegates will have to seek the authority of; their respective Parliaments before committing " themselves on major policy. It is expected that the negotiations will far outlive the conference, which the' High, Commissioners, all of whom are attending the discussions, can carry oiy ,„ .