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The proper function of the Government in relation to trade and employment was to try to create conditions under which industry itself could carry on with confidence and success. To that end the policy of the Government had been consistently directed. He instanced the Ottawa Agreement and the number of trade agreements with various foreign countries.
That policy, Mr. Chamberlain went on, was still being developed. They had recently made a trade agreement with Eire, and negotiations were still proceeding with India, Burma, Swit. zetland and the United States, He expressed a hope that the fall in prices in primary commodities had been arrested, and that, with a general easing of political conditions, they would see that the recession they had had to face this year pass away and be succeeded by ah upward trend,
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