TRADE PACT
GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY. POSITION TO BE EXAMINED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 21. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr Oliver Stanley, replying in the blouse of Commons to a question on the agreement recently concluded in Dusseldorf between representatives of the Federation of British Industries and the Reichgruppe Industrie, said it was clear that the whole position needed examination the light of the events of last week.
He intimated that he had asked the federation to discuss the.matter with him, and, in a supplementary reply, emphasised that he had, asked for the discussion solely because of the new circumstances arising from the German action in Czechoslovakia.
Referring to reports which he had seen of criticism of the agreement by friendly countries, Mr Stanley urged members to study the full text of the agreement, claiming that the criticisms in question were largely based on a misunderstanding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1939, Page 7
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150TRADE PACT Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1939, Page 7
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