AMERICA WANTS Trade Pact With Empire

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 5

AMERICA WANTS Trade Pact With Empire

■Pres# Amo.

SACRIFICE ASKED Dominions^ Attitude A Problem PREFERENCE QUESTION

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(Eeceived 7, 8.45 t.m.) LONDON, May 6. Sir Arthur Willert, British representative at Washington and lately of the Poreign Office, has jttft returned from America. In a speecfc in Lofldmi, generally believbd to be inspired by the Amerlcan SecretarF! of State, Mr Cordell HuR, Sir Arthur annoimced that M!r HuU desires England and the Pominlone to join in a new economie trade agreement with the United Statee. This would mean a saorifice by Britain, he stated, and moreover, the Dominions would not easily reconcxle com cessions to America with imperial proference. "Nevertheless, the Epire'e first business in the new reign should be to grasp President Eoosevelt'S e6ohohiie hand and assitance," he Ooflcltidedi The political COfipOndfeiif of the Aiitraliah AssoeihtOd Preei leAfhi tk&t the linperial Conference it being iilauguTated at St. James's Palace. It will be the first Imperial Cnfefbilce, to Be opened at a Eoyal palace, which, apaft from being appfopriate for a jubiiee conference, is xegaTded as a fittxhg scene during the Coronation yehr and also appropriate to the new status. It is undexstood that the Britfeh Government is anxiouS that the Empire Prime Minisers ehotxld discUis the movement towhrd lowering of the World tariff- barriers.