THE UNSPOKEN WORD
The unspoken wofd is often the more potent. And so it is in considering what is going on at Ottawa we have to pay heed to more than the speeches delivered by the delegates. Both Mr. Bruce and Mr. Baldwin declared at first that they did not intend to haggle in too much detail about the exact benefits of preferences. But later on an unfortunate exchange occurred between these two leaders on the subject of reciprocal benefits. The fact is that between the Motherland and the Dominion there is more than a business partnership and more than a platonic friendship. In the background of all Empire relationships stands one immense reality, the impregnable steel battleline of the British Navy. The trade and the security of the Dominions are in the last analysis, dependent on this Navy the cost of which is entirely met by England. There is more to the question of preferences than the 'barter of wool and wheat and factory goods.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 298, 11 August 1932, Page 4
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