COLONIAL DEMAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 11

COLONIAL DEMAND.

No Unconditional Surrender ByBritain. POSITION OF "HAVE-NOTS." (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON", March 29. In the course of a paper before the Royal Society, entitled, "What is the British. Empire?" Viscount Sanlcey dissented from the idea that the Balfour Declaration of J926 was a diplomatic gesture, of which lawyers had made something that was never intended. It was the logical outcome, he said, of a policy of statesmanship, the continuance of which would keep the Empire together and ensure that its members would stand side by side in any great test of its future existence.

Discussing the demand that the colonial position be equalised ' by surrender to the "have-nots," Lord Sankey said that unconditional surrender of any British possession was not a question of practical politics. Another plan would remove restrictions to enable the "have-nots" to obtain what they want. The question of what u-=e would be made of any ceded colony in the event of a future war must receive careful consideration, and Britain was entitled to an answer to that question.