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(Don Bethune wrote:-)
I should not have to remind either of you that the seeds of WW 2 were
sown in the Empire
Preferences Conference in Ottawa circ 1930-31, where the
"Sliding Scale Tariff Agreements" were signed for the specific purpose of
closing Empire markets to Japan and Germany, by the use of sky high tariffs
against them
Joe replies:- According to no less an impeccable source than
Douglas himself, the seeds of WW II were sown much earlier. Well before
the 'Depression' even came about.
In regards to Imperial Preference, it was a very good thing for your
country, and ours, that inter-Empire trade arrangements were made at that
time. Which had a far greater bearing on allieviating the effects of the
Depression than did the 'myth' that a NZ Labour party government followed the
prescriptions of 'Social Credit'.
Pity those trading arrangements couldn't have been accompanied by an
appropriate financial policy that would have allowed ''British Empire,
Limited'' to achieve the very real potential for ALL British subjects that
it was then very physically capable of.
By the way, how many of Douglas's "New Zealand Proposals" were
enacted by that first Labour government? Were they even understood by New
Zealanders of that political persuasion? Or did they go right over their
heads entirely, as they embraced something else in the name of 'social credit'
via Savage's Labour Party? Wasn't it more a case as noted in the John
Hughes book in regards to 'social credit' in NZ ~ that the prevalent view in NZ
of that era was a fervent hope that 'something' would be implemented in
Britain, and lead to a recovery of the British economy and renewed
demands for NZ export products there? And it didn't really make much
difference what that 'something', be it called 'social credit' or whatever,
actually was ~ virtually no one in NZ understood it, or wanted to,
anyways? And just look at where you are today ~ the more things
change, the more they remain the same!
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