To those oliler countries which to a large extent live by export trade this may be regrettable, but Tam afraid it is inevitable. Might I suggest to our Chinese friends that progress in this direction will be much facilitated by association, by ce-operation with those older countries which have already tackled and overcome similar prob-Toms, That association would take the form of financial help and commercial and technical experiences, but, while I may be treading fon dangerous ground, I cannot but feel that those results would be more readily secured if one ce greater political unification in This may and will take time, and we are all glad to observe that this fundamental problem is being tackled and progress being made.
I hope the Chinese gentlemen hero to-night will not for a moment think that I am attempting to criticise, Far from it But it is obvious to everyone that financial help is much more readily given when political stability is assured. Surely' the present position in my. own country is a confirmation of the point T have just made. T refer pardonable pride to what Great Britain has accomplished since those trying days in September 1931, when we were forced off the gold' standard. Immediately a Na: tional Government was formed anid acted quite independently of Tarty aims, The country stood fplidly behind that Government which set about putting its house ite order, and it is common knowledge through the newspapers that ow internal trade is distinctly on the un grade, that we have not lost our percentage of the world's trade and that our finances are in a sound position. Unemoloyment ig decreas ing and by the end of this year it expected that we shall have nearly half a million people more employed than at the end of 1932.
T wonder at times whether lack of personal contact among people
ons for suspicion of one coun wha matter ie'not one of the rae for another." While the press ist be. commended for their' efforts in spreading knowledge of each cour friends here to-night will admit y's problems, T think my press
once that their efforts, the visits to
food, "T hope you will agree with referred, would "do me that a, greater appreciation of each. other's. political and infernal problems, an" appreciation of the interdependence of one' country on another, a closer economic welding together would surely contribute te the futility of submitting the solu of their problems. to the arbitrament of war,
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