Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 February 1954.
Mr Reginald Maudling
, Barnet
12:00,
1 February 1954
We were not negotiating, of course, on behalf of the independent sterling area countries in the matter of trade, but they furnished us with estimates of the likely course of trade. The actual Agreement is a payments Agreement, not a trade Agreement.