London, Feb. 20. The British Government had London, Feb. 20.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, announced in the House of Commons today. that Mr. R. S. Hudson, Secretary for Overseas Trade, would visit Moscow, and other northern capitals, in the latter half of March.
Mr. Hudson, the Premier declared, would carry out his visits in pursuance of the British Government's desire to improve and_ consolidate relations with. other Governments. In this connection, he said, they were ying special attention to' the possibility of trade relations.
At present, Mr. Hudson and Mr. Oliver Stanley, Presiden: of Board of Trade, are preparing to visi Berlin, where they will discuss trade relations between Great Britain and Germany.
Mr. Hudson, it is learned. will also visit Poland and Finland. He plans, at present, to go to Was.aw from Berlin and then to Moscow, returning home via Helsingfors.
The chief aim of these visits will be to try to persuade the irdustrialists of those countries to purchase .|more from British manufacturers.
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