§ Sir R. Wellsasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, now that he has appointed a representative of the Export Council to go to the United States of America, he will appoint the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as the Council's representative in South
1122WAmerica, to develop British exports to the dollar and hard currency countries outside the sterling area?
§ Captain WaterhouseNo, Sir. The work of the Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department is political. The Department already has its representatives in the countries concerned, and the 1123W Secretary's business is to guide their activities from headquarters, where alone he can be in touch with the matters which govern our export trade.