Ourselves and the Argentine
The personal interest the Prince of 'Wales has developed in the Argentine Republic may prove of material value to both countries, for both will unques- tionably benefit by the contacts developed in different fields since the Prince's last visit to South America. His speech at the Argentine Chamber of Commerce dinner on Tuesday laid needed stress on the importance of cultural as distinct from commercial relations between this country and the Argentine, and the announcement. that arrangements have been made fur a better supply of British news to the Argentine! Press justifies the hope that misrepresentations from which this country is apt to suffer in South America will be less flagrant and less frequent in the future. As to trade relationships, the ease of the Argentine more than any other country focusses attention on the idea of the maintenance of low-tariff or, better still, reciprocally-Free-Trade rela- tions with any countries ready to enter into that arrangement in a high-protection world, Sir Walter Layton has said something on this point recently, and he and others with his knowledge and authority might well say more, for there is a way here of getting some other countries' tariffs down.
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