NOT UNSELFISH

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1933, Page 6

NOT UNSELFISH

PRINCE’S COMMENT ON OTTAWA

BRITISH ACTION EXPLAINED

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, February 11

The Prince of IVales, at an Argentine Club dinner, referring to. the Ottawa Agreement, said; “I am not saying that our action has been purely unselfish, but in what way can our prosperity—the pj'CgpiM’Uy of one of Di? greatest markets in the world—be bad far • other people? How can it b® other than good for the Argentine, and how can the Argentine fail to benefit from the, measures taken not to injure the world’s meat industry, but to improve it?” The Rt. Hon. Walter 'Runcimaa re. marked that each one of his five colleagues throughout the whole of the Ottawa Conference was conscious that the ■relationship between the Argentine and Britain was so intimat e that it could not lightly be interrupted, ana they tried to do nothing which would interfere with that relationship. What they proposed to do during the nest week or two was the natural corollary of th e Ottawa Conference. Indeed, all they had "to do was to put cn paper the terms upon which they could more nearly draw Their trading : interests together and more fully nvset the requirements of th e two nations.