PROTECTION OF EMPIRE TRADE
AGAINST AMERICAN IMPOSITION “LET US BUILD A TARIFFWALL’* , EMPIRE OR ISLAND? (United Pied Association—By Slaotri* TolesraDh—OopyrtithU *.. . “ (Australian Press Association) LONDON, 31st' July.' The “Morning Post’’ is alarmed at • Ihe increasing American tariffs. It says that if the. Government showed a true conception of statesmanship it might say to the dominiqns —“Let us join in -, protecting ourselves against American - imposition. Let us also build a taj’iff '• wall and so shape our trade as to make, the British Empire independent of the. 1 : whole world. In the absence pf official initiative it rests with the representn-C tives of industry to shape an. imperial • ' policy. British commerce must get._y busy, otherwise it will wake one morn- - ing and find even dominion preferences gone. Then the country will, shrink from an empire .to an island.” ... -
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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