10 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 2

Lord Salisbury also threw out an interesting statement on safeguarding

that may be worth remembering if the controversy grows :— " As regarded safeguarding, the Government were not dissatisfied with the results of that policy so far as it had gone but they were not prepared to extend it in the direction of safeguarding iron and steel. The Government were opposed to Protection, and especially to the policy of the taxation of food."