Fell he did not find that the excess of imports had been growing, but decreasing. The large volume' of imports from the United States during September mainly consisted of the usual seasonal importations of wheat and flour. Attention had been given to the problem of pro—euring the necessary imports in the way most advantageous to our general trade position, but a trans-for of purchases from one market to another for the purpose of raising the value of the £1 and so cheapening the cost of living, as had been suggested, if not carried out by traders in their own interests, would involve a very onerous degree of Government control.
Sir R. Home, answering Mr. Alex. Shaw, said he had no reason to suppose the French consumers! of dyestuffs had been placed in an unduly favoured position as compared with British consumers in respect of supplies from Germany, or to doubt the adequacy of the supplies being received from that country by way of reparation or} otherwise.
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