DEFENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 9

DEFENCE.

EMPIRE AFFAIRS. Problems Following In Wake ■ Of Development. ADVANCE OF COLONISATION. | ~^~~~ i (By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright! • i fßeceired 11 a.m.) NEW YORK. .Tnlv 1.

Professor Sir \V. Harrison Moore, in his second lecture to tiie Chicago Iniversity on the subject of the "British Empire and Its Problems,*' dealt with the matters of foreign policy, trade, immigration, the White Australia policy and defence from the Australian standpoint. Britain's interests, hf>*. said, were world-wide, and the earlier stages of colonial development were controlled from Britain, but under growing colonial self-government complete British responsibility ".nd control were abandoned and preferential agreements, first among groups of colonies, then between Colonies and foreign countries, became recognised as domestic matters. Meantime another Imperial trade] movement took shape as a voluntary co-operative policy of Empire-wide preference advocated by the late Mr. Joe Chamberlain and Mr. Deakin, a former Australian Prime Minister. Economic co-operation within the Empire was as characteristic of Australian policy noxr as a generation ago. Coincident with this was a new importance oj immigration, which was now completely a matter of domestic control for each country of the Empire, though the attainment of this position had produced difficulties owing to the susceptibilities of some foreign nations. The White Australia policy formed a phase of an economic policy aiming at I the maintenance of the standard of living. This was low in Asiatic countries which were nearest Australia geo- j graphically, and India, China and Japan; were believed to be seeking ah outlet for their teeming populations. After much discussion it had been recognised that the Dominions must share the responsibility and the direction of naval defence with Britain, the value of schemes for co-operation in this way had been shown in the war time by the Australian Navv.