Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
BRITAIN TO PUSH
ARGENTINE TRADE
Committee Will Study Finan-
ciaI, Economic and In.
dustrial Relations.
BY JOSEPH B. PHILLIPS.

BY Radio to The Star.
LONDON, June Empire salesman
ship, recently achieving notable sue
cesses in Russia and Australia, i'm
pressed by the accomplishments OF
President Hoover'S tour when President
elect. is about to penetrate South
America. Through the board of trade
the government has announced the
appointment of distinguished commit
tee of four financiers and industrialiStS
to visit Argentina and Brazil to study
the economic, financial and industrial
relations Of those two nations with Eng
land. While to some extent this is a
continuation of the trail blazed by the
Prince of Wales when he visited South
America as the good will pioneer"
preceding both the French and Amert-
can aviators and Mr.. Hoover, 1t is in
relation to the Presidents good will tour
that the appointment of the commits
sion has excited most interest.
Meets Widespread Approval
Convinced that the empire has fallen
behind not only. the United States but
Germany in South American trade, the
manufacturers, business men and eX-
porterS of all classes since the naming
of the commission have bombardcd
newspapers with approval and applause
Their general tenor is Strikingly the
hungry for British goods and is de-
prived of getting them by the lacka.,
daisical craftsmanship. The personnel
of the new commission is sufficient
evidence of its Importance. Chairman
is Viscount d'Abernon. Best known as
the first postwar Ambassador to Ger
many-in itself good will task of no
mean proportions-Lord d'Abernon' also
has a wide reputation as a flnancier.
Before the war he was financial adj
wiser to the Egyptian government, later
chairman of the Dominions Royal
Trade Commission. With him on the
South American tour will be Sir VIII
liam Claire Lees, managing director OF
large textile interests. former president
of the Manchester Chamber of Com
merce; G. E. Rowland, chairman of
large engineering concern; Julian Pig
gott, former British commissioner TO
Cologne, representative of the iron and
steel industries. The mission will be
accompanied by H. o. Chalkley, for
mer charge d'affaires in Buenos Aires,
author of the annual economic survey
Of Argentina. When the Prince OF
Wales returned from his South Ameri-
can tour in 1925 he dubbed it ''the land
of almost boundless possibilities" and
advised English boys to begin to study
Spanish.
LltbLe Since accomplished.
Since, however, little has been done
toward the intensive cultivation Of
the South American market. While
500 900 900 pounds of British capital
are invested in Argentina and trade
with Brazil, supplemented by the con-
troll of the large utilities and railway
companies, England has left the field
fallow in comparison with the efforts
of the United States and Germany, and
even those of France, where the flight
Of Costes and lie Brix had a distinct
repercussion on home cash registers.
Recently two public statements have
spread the belief that the South Amer
lean public is yearning for a chance to
buy British goods in greater quantities.
Charley, who will accompany the mis-
sion. wrote in his last report the Ar
gentine purchasers prefer British goods
and will buy them If the prices are
right" A similarly hopeful message
was brought by Edouard G. Drabble,
in q speech in London which said:
''I am here to tell the board Of trade
and the manufacturers of motor cars
and agricultural machinery that Argen-
tina Is yelling and anxious to buy from
this country If she will make the articles
we want" When Lord dAbernon and
his companions set off across the At
lantic it will be the third Important
trade embassy sent out from this coun-
try within IL months. The first was to
Russia, the second to Australia. Should
the South American mission duplicate
the successes of its predecessors it will
be a complete triumvirate which cannot
fail to be regarded as an important fac
tor in swinging back to those spheres
of trade and prosperity shunted away
during the postwar years.
(Copyright, 1920