DEFINITE OBJECTIVE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 196, 1 June 1934, Page 3

DEFINITE OBJECTIVE

WAY OUT OF WORLD TROUBLES.

ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR. (Per Press Association)/ AUCKLAND, May. 31. “What is heeded above all to-day is a definite objective which, at least within the confines of the British Empire if not throughout the civilised world, can be vigorously, unswervingly, and honestly pursued in the interests not of one nation or one class or one industry, but of all, said the Governor-General (Lord Bledisioe), in concluding an address at the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. . “To suggest sure remedies for the world’s present deep-seated maladies is necessarily beyond your capacity or mine,” said his Excellency.. “All that is possible is the clarification of an ever mobile.. situation, and some recognition of certain trends of economio policy common to most civilised countries and apparently crystallising in Great Britain, which is your chief overseas customer, and (in spite of unfortunate current divergencies of' view) your steadfast friend, as well as: your sympathetic mother.

“There is, however, one crosscurrent, one imponderable factor which defies accurate measurement, and which blurs the economic outlook, creating a species of astigmatism’ which the world’s statesmen oculists may find it supremely difficult to rectify without offending the national or Imperial amour propre,” continues his Excellency. “This is the craving of certain great nations of the world, such as Japan-and Germany, for what they call a place in the sun, a new era of geographical expansion for their teeming surplus populations. How this craving is to be satisfied it is a difficult and delicate matter even to hint; but certain it is that unless and until it- is 1 satisfied the spectre or war, in spite of the ‘ zealous and benevolent activities of the League of Nations, will not be laid to rest, and a large measure of insecurity—the greatest foe to commercial prosperitywill persist throughout the world.