OTTAWA MEETING

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1932, Page 5

OTTAWA MEETING

WHEAT AND MEAT OBJECTION TO TARIFF. Jcited Press Association—By Electric LONDON, May 24.

When the House el commons was m committee on the Finance Bill, Mr D. Jt. Crentcll (Labour, Glamorgan;, moved an amendment to the effect that no 'tariff Advisory Committee Urtter slia.i apply to wheat and meat. 'l;h(y mover said that nearly two hundred millions storlingtiwas spent by toe people of Britain yearly on wheat and meat. These, vitalcommodities of the people should >be admitted to Britain free of duty. M. A. Levan (Labour, Ebbw Vale, Wales) said: There are rumours that Air Baldwin is not going to the Ottawa Conference because he fears that it will prove a “white elephant,” and that, having been associated with one “white elephant” across the Atlantic, Mr Baldwin does not desire to be associated with another. Mr Bevan ashed how could the Argentine Republic pay its interest to British capital if Britain were going to deny her products an entry into the world's greatest market. Mr Grenfell’s amendment was rejected by 282 votes to 59,

MR BALDWIN’S ROLE.

HEAD OF BRITISH DELEGATION.

' '’LONDON, May 24. The ‘-'Daily Telegraph” says: There is no foundation for the suggestion that Mr Stanley Baldwin (Acting-Prime Minister) is not going to Ottawa. Mr Ramsay MacDonald will be back at London before Mr Baldwin will be due to leave as head of the British Delegation for Ottawa.

COMMENT BY THE “TIMES.” LAUSANNE AND OTTAWA. LONDON, May 24. “The Times,” discussing the Geneva, Lausanne and Ottawa Conferences says: To abandon the hope of an agreement on armaments at Geneva would be to abandon the hope of reversing the present drift to economic stagnation. Confidence will not be restored until the existing political tension is relieved by an agreement regulating armaments. A substantial step towards disarmament is the necessary condition for a settlement of the intergovernmental debts, which a,re paralysing trade. If the Gcne-’-o and Lausanne Conferences fail. “The Times” continued tne world would have to go through further and dutrper tribulations before it . .establishes new equilibriums. Tn that event the Ottawa Conference muss secure for the quarter of the world that is under the British flag the means to maintain and even to increase production and trade. ft says the Ot tawa Conference has an advantage over the Lausanne Conference, in that the Governments participating will be accustomed to work together. After the Ottawa Conference, the Emoire Governments must he able to claim in the words of Pitt, that “the British Empire has saved itself by its exertions, and, by its example, will save the world.”

IS PRINCE OF WALES GOING?

OTTAWA, May 24

Tho. Government has received no information in connection with rumours that the Prince of Wales will open the Imperial Confercnece here in July.