Oral Answers to Questions — Trade Restrictions.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 21 December 1934.

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asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has considered the resolution passed by the representatives of some 30 countries at the inter-parliamentary congress held last September at Istambul, that it is necessary to reduce restrictions upon trade in order to remove the world depression, and that Great Britain is best fitted to take a lead in this matter despite the failure of the World Economic Conference; and what steps has the Government taken to profit by this willingness on the part of so many nations to follow a policy which it supports?