The Resolutions we have just quoted were forwarded to the
Prime Minister with a letter signed by all the members of the Committee explaining why they bad taken immediate action, and not waited till their investigations in regard to the general com- mercial and industrial policy of this country were complete. Their lesson fer prompt action wad the announcement that an Imperial Conference was to be held at an early date. They go ova to say :—
" have arrived at the conclusions indicated chiefly on the ground
that although to some of us any measures which may act in restraint of trade are in the abstract distasteful, we think it necessary that for the sake of the unity of the Empire a serious attempt should now be made to meet the declared wishes of the Dominions and Colonies for the development of their economic relations with the United Kingdom, and that any abstract opinions we may hold should not, under the circumstances in which we are placed and with the experience gained during the war, stand in the way of any measures which are seen to be important, having regard to the general interests of the Empire."
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