' SIR E. GREY AND THE TRAIFF REFORMERS.
LONDON, January 16. The Righb-Hon.- Sir E. Grey (Secretary " of State for Foreign Affairs), speaking at Alnock, in Northumberland, reiterated the statement that if. the foreign nations executed in its entirety the programme they had announced it would undoubtedly ■be necessary for us for the preservation of i o.ur independence and our safety at home tp make a further -increase in tie navy. But we needed a strength in addition to that of the army and the navy. We .needed a wise policy as, well. He agreed with Lord' Cromer that protective duties must- greatly increase the possibility of a . liostile "combination. ' Only a pedant would say that the point did not deserve serious j consideration. The worse the tariff re- j formers fared the more fanatical they fcecame.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 19
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136' SIR E.GREY AND THE TRAIFF REFORMERS. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 19
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