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...Earl of Bessborough is not so much interested in gold as in diamonds, railways and margarine. When appointed Governor General of the Dominion of Canada he was board chairman of Britain's gigantic Unilever Ltd. (margarine), chairman of Brazil's coffee-carrying San Paulo Railway, deputy chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines (South Africa), a director of some 30 other corporations. Thus His Excellency is a Big-Business Governor General. Last week he prepared to open for His Majesty in Ottawa a Big Business meeting, the Imperial Economic Conference...
Cross Currents. Why should Canadians buy either English or U. S. motor cars when they can buy such things as Mc-Laughlin-Buicks built in Canada by the Dominion affiliate of General Motors? Why should Australia buy British steel when she has expensively erected a mighty steel plant to fabricate her Sydney "Dream Bridge," now complete (TIME, March...
...many Englishmen, though not of course those in closest touch with the situation, think that the basis of negotiations [at Ottawa] will be a free entry for Dominion food and raw materials into the United Kingdom (with tariffs against foreign countries) in return for a similar free entry of English manufactures into the Dominions. This, of course, is a complete illusion. Canada, Australia, South Africa and India, especially the first, have all become largely industrialized on the basis of tariffs, and they have no intention whatever of allowing effective English competition with their industries...
...usual, His Majesty's South African dominion yielded vastly more gold than any other part of the world, 10,877,777 fine ounces (worth $224,560,439). Second was Canada with 2,693,892 fine ounces, third the U. S., fourth the U. S. S. R., fifth Mexico, sixth Australia, seventh Rhodesia, eighth Japan...
...mattered not that H. R. H. was in fact too hoarse with a cold to speak or even attend the Dominion Day dinner. He handed his speech to one of the very few friends he entirely trusts, his brother Prince George. Reading for the Prince of Wales to 500 astonished guests who included Secretary for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Prince George roundly declared...