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     If progress is to be made Governments will need 
to pay far more attention to the interests of consumers 
and to harden their hearts against group pressure.
 
     It is difficult for any individual Government 
to take this necessary line but its task would be rendered 
much easier if instead of attempting to act alone, the 
policies it desired to pursue were seen to be part of a 
great international movement for increased prosperity 
based on freer trade.
 
     It is part of the general idea of Group B that 
 
plans should immediately be formulated for international 
 
economic co-operation on a scale never previously envisaged. 
 
These plans which should form part of the peace settlement 
 
would include, inter-alia:-
 
     (i) Agreement between the nations for a concerted 
         and co-ordinated attack upon the problems of
         poverty in order to secure a progressive rise in 
         living standards (nutrition, housing, clothing, etc.)
 
     (ii) International solutions of commodity problems 
          (such as the world wheat problem).
 
     (iii) International agreement on the reduction of 
           trade barriers.
 
     (iv) International agreement on monetary and financial
           policy and systems of assistance from the 
           creditor nations in the solution of the financial
           dlfficulties of other nations.
 
COLONIES.
      10. The question of Colonies will have to be dealt 
with the in the peace settlement.
 
     For historical reasons a limited  number of 
 
countries have colonial possessions. This fact is
 
a cause of misgivings go other nations. It is probable that 
 
the advantages to be gained from colonial possessions are 
 
exageerated but the reservation of rights of trading, or 
 
preferential arrangemente for trade with colonies has 
 
proved a source of international difficulties.
 
         If Italy and Japan are to be reconciled to a 
 
peaceful world from which threats of aggression have been 
 
banished, then the Colonial powers will need to acquiesce
 
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