Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stanley M. Bruce, Australian Prime Minister, drew the attention of the Conference to the fact that Australia was faced with the problem of what to do with her already increased production.* He said that the Government had been obliged to come to the aid of the fruit growers, because they could find no market for their produce. He, therefore, invited the Imperial Government to place a tariff on raw materials and foodstuffs with an adequate preference to the Dominions...
Premier Bruce also asserted that the British meat market was practically at the mercy of a great combine " that is surely and inevitably driving Australia out of meat production." His speech caused the greatest alarm in Argentina, whence 90% of Britain's meat is imported...
...Lawrence has written since The Rainbow. There are interesting human beings in it, the prose is often of extraordinary beauty, the ferocious preoccupation with sex that disfigured Women in Love is much less in evidence. The story is that of Richard Somers, poet and essayist, who went to Australia with his wife because he had made up his mind that Europe, after the War, was played out, done for, and he wished to find out what new spirit or spiritual impulse might be abroad in the new countries. Australia terrified and fascinated him by turns-he got drawn into local...
...Australia...
...conference of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Canada, Newfoundland, Irish Free State, Northern Ireland, Union of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, probably Southern Rhodesia and the Secretary of State for India will start its deliberations this week. These heads of States comprise what is known as the Imperial Conference (TIME, May 5). The Conference will probably remain in session for six weeks. The Premiers will be invited by the King to a banquet in Buckingham Palace...