The Proposals for the Expansion of World Trade and Employment
| Published date | 01 April 1946 |
| Author | V. W. Bladen |
| Date | 01 April 1946 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070204600100207 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
The
Proposals
for
the
Expansion
of
World
Trade
and
Employment
V.
W.
Bladen
A
long
with
the
financial
agreement
and
the
settlement
of
lend-lease
claims
there
was
released on
December
6,
1945,
a
"Joint
Statement
by
the
United
Kingdom
and
the
United
States
regarding
the
Understanding
Reached
on
Commercial
Policy."
In this
Statement
the
Government
of
the
United
Kingdom
declares
that
it
is
in
"full
agreement
on all
important
points"
with
the
"Proposals
for
consideration
by
an
Inter-
national
Conference
on
Trade
and
Employment"
put
forward
by
the
Government
of
the
United
States,
and
that
it
"accepts
them
as
a
basis for
international
discussion"
and
will
"use
its
best
endeavours
to
bring
such discussion
to
a
successful
con-
clusion,
in
the
light
of
the
views
expressed
by
other
countries."
The
United
States
Proposals
called
for
a
Conference
under
the
sponsorship
of
the
UNO
not
later
than
the
summer
of
1946.
Before
this
article
appears
in
print
the
date
may
have
been
fixed.
The
purpose
of
this
note
is
to
promote in
Canada
dis-
cussion
of
the
proposals,
in
order
that
our
representatives
at
that
Conference
may
have
some
backing
of
public
opinion.
It
is
almost
entirely
restricted
to
summarizing
the
proposals,
but
con-
tains
occasional
comments.
Its
main
purpose
would
be
achieved
if
every
one
of
its
readers acquired
immediately
and studied
care-
fully
the
pamphlet
issued
by
the
Department
of
External
Af-
fairs
(Conference
Series,
1945,
No.
3)
containing
the
Proposals,
the
Financial
Agreement,
and
related
documents.
Page
refer-
ences
in
what
follows
are
to
this
pamphlet.
There
is
first
an
"Analysis
of
the
Proposals"
in
rather
general
terms
(pages
5-10).
The
common
interest
in
the
ex-
pansion
of
world
trade
is
stated:
"World
trade
is
not
only
the
device
through
which
useful
goods
produced in
one
country
are
made
available
to
consumers
in
another;
it
is
also
the
means
through
which
the
needs
of
people
in
one
country
are
translated
into
orders
and
therefore
into jobs in
another.
Trade
connects
employment, production,
and
consumption and
faci-
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