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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1933, Page 4

Addressing the International Congress cf Commercial Exchanges, called in Paris by the French Union of Export Industries, Sir George Paish maid the time had come when persons concerned in the maintenance of international trade should make themselves heard in tlie councils of the nation, otherwise international trade would com& to a complete standstill, with disastrous consequences not only to exporters, but to those engaged in every other branch of business and to the peoples of all countries without exception. The nations had been engaged in a universal endeavour to return to tho deplorable conditions of former centuries, under which nations were compelled by their situation and environment to be practically self-con-tained units of production and of distribution. It seemed to have been forgotten that world progress was deponrhut unen international policy and upon international co-operation. The grow in sr interdependence of the nations on all sides of their activities had brought about a state of universal wellbeing which could not have, been attained by any policy of economic nationalism. The growth of the modern world in population and in prosperity must be attributed to the growth of international co-operation and to the welding together of the whole human family into an economic unit- of natuially interdependent nations.