NO CLOSED CIRCUIT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 7

NO CLOSED CIRCUIT

IN LANDS OF BRITISH EMPIRE Mr Neville Chamberlain’s Survey EXHIBITION THAT MAY CONTRIBUTE TO PEACE (Recd This Day, 11.30 a.m.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 7. The Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain) spoke in Westminster Hall, London, at a meeting to wish success to the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow. He said: “It is proper that the message we send from this ancient hall should travel beyond the shores of these islands to those distant lands overseas which are linked with us by common allegiance to the Crown, for the Exhibition, as its aim shows, is theirs as well as ours. Now, more perhaps than at any other time, there is need for co-operation and understanding between nations. We of the- British Commonwealth can give a livving example of these principles. We are pledged to work for peace and proggress in the world and it is my hope that this Exhibition will make a contribution to that end. In our Commonwealth of Nations, we have five hundred million people. They trade with each other to the extent of £700,000,000 a year, and with the rest of the world to the extent of £1,500,000,000. Neither the United Kingdom nor any of the component parts of the Empire is, or seeks to be, a closed circuit. “For agricultural products and industrial raw materials, the United Kingdom remains the great entrepot of the world —this trade was worth over 110 millions sterling last year—and this gives our community its special character—that of a world community, responsive to all currents, all changes but all this must rest upon a strong and consolidated base at home.”