In the meantime Lord Beaverbrook, or the Daily Express, seems
happier about the support which his policy is receiving in the Dominions. The Daily Express on Monday published, under the heading of "Empire Support for the Crusade," three reports. Of these one is from Canada, and refers to an unexceptionable resolu- tion in favour of the development of Empire trade. There is no direct reference to the fiscal question. The other two indicate that Empire Free Traders in New Zealand and South Africa more or less confuse the development of trade and the cause of fiscal unity. The kind of fiscal bargaining proposed is shown by the suggestion, made in South Africa, that a preference given to the British motor industry would be a proper recompense for a sub- stantial preference given to South African beef. The taxation of foreign beef here would be enough in itself, we should think, to lose a general election for the Con- servatives.
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