POST-WAR TRADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1943, Page 4

POST-WAR TRADE

NEED OF CLEAR=CUT POLICY VIEWS OF MANUFACTURERS IN BRITAIN. ADDRESS BY SIR P. HANNON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 18. Sir Patrick Hannon, in his presidential 'address to the National Union of Manufacturers, complained that while American planning for future trade was proceeding at an accelerated velocity, there was no indication of a definite and clear-cut policy by Britain. “There is a clear indication,” Sir P. Hannon said, “that American manufacturers are determined to secure a leading position in world trade. There is no doubt that the competitive power of the United States, if exercised without a recognition of mutual obligation between America and the British Commonwealth, will present from the British viewpoint, a formidable prospect. I feel that we have a first-class case, on ’the grounds of services rendered and the urgency of collaboration in rebuilding the shattered world. We should not be mealy-mouthed in tellingtoh the American manufacturers that the two-way traffic of the war should be maintained in a joint reconstruction programme.”