Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-08
IIoyd-George Tells Chicago
Editor England Cannot Live
Without Good Relations With
United States,
KEENER COMPETITION
REGARDED AS CERTAIN
When Struggle Is Over Eng
IiSh Trades viii Be Found
More Efficient Bankers
Criticize Reserve Board,
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Editor of the chicago herald, III
snecial Dispatch to New York Times,
ondon. Dec. G.-Before ] left Chi
oogo / was asked by number oil
ieoding business men TO make an in
yestieotion as 20 the business con-
5iHons that would be likely to OBJ
toin between the United States and
he allies ana more particularly Eng
land after the war is over.
During the last week | have put
MAT question to four members Of the
Pritish government, to some of Eng
hnd's leading bankers and financial
men with tremendous interests III
America to three editors of London
daily newspapers, to the presiding
genius of the best known weekly
iournal IN England to at least fifty
lpsiness men whose spheres of ac-
tiyitv are circumsCribed only by the
populated areas of the earth, to var
ions minor officials connected with
governmental departments that are
Directly concerned lin fact, TO every
man with whom | have come in con-
tact since MCrCRy niornfng-al'd
have worked as steadily as an inter
rogation point from that moment un-
ii now.
The only answer ! have received is:
who knows what is going to hap
pen after the war is over? We are as
much in the dark as to that as to
the date of the end of the war"
Then / asked question No. p
Did the Paris conference mean
that after the restoration of peace
there will follow a trade war IN
which the hands of the allies will be
raised not only against their enemies,
but all other commercial competitors
with America singled out for special
attention in this direction"
David Lloyd-GeoIge, minister of
war, epitomi2ed the official point of
view when he said to me:
Such an idea never entered any
body's mind. 1t is absurd The idea
that Grear Britain could live without
America that Great ETitnin, with its
seabound position and its corfigura-
ton of coast its river mouths and
estuaries, could lock both the back
and the front doors, Is the notion OF
maniac
Neither Mr. Runciman, president OF
the board of trade; Mr. McKonna, the
financial head Of the government,
nor Viscount Grey would talk for
publication; but / am violating no
confidence when / say that they
share Mr. Lloyd Georges views. 1t
was pointed out that at the Paris CON
ference the deliberations were aim
ed only at Germany.
Not Bent on Economic Suicide
Premier AsGuth has made one Of
fetal statement on the subject He
said:
ut has been suggested in neutral
that we allies have a SIMS
ter design after the war is over to
combine against them and build up
an impenetrable stone wall against
their trade. That IS childish fiction,
Tor, if it were true, it would mean
that we, one and all were bent on
economic suicide. When the time
for peace comes, nothing will be more
essential to the allies from the stand
point O. simple self-interest than to
establish and maintain the best in
dustrial and financial relations with
all neutral powers"
AS far as it is possible to judge
from the various extended and frank
conversations l have had l think it
Is fair to assume that if one may
speculate on a future problem based
on conditions that may change at any
moment, there is absolutely no dis
position here to take any action of