A NATIONALIST.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18074, 16 May 1924, Page 9

A NATIONALIST.

MR MACDONALD SPEAKS. RESPECT FOR TRADITIONS. (BT CABLE—PBEBB ASSOaiTION COPYBIOBT.) (biuteb'b TELBaaxua.) LONDON, May 14. Defining the Government's foreign policy at a Labour women's demonstration in the Albert Hall, the Prime Minister declared that he was a convinced and unbending Nationalist. He respected national traditions and characteristics. It would Joe a very bad day for tho world if the diversity of humanity created by so many variations of race, creed, and clime became sand-papered into one feature.

But neither was it his ideal to run Nationalism so hard that it became a pest' to anyone trying to make peace. Nationalism was not aggression, but self-respect. Therefore' the Labour Government's foreign policy was to bring about a groat peace union. He appealed to ail European nations, no less than to the G*eat Powers, to come 'in and enable the advancement of the policy of disarmament. Eeferrlng to the Dawes reparation report, Mr Mac Donald admitted, that there were some things in it of which he was a little bit suspicious, but he ! believed the adoption of the report as a whole would give Europe a new chance of finding its feet. He urged all the Powers concerned to take up the same attitude and trust to the sense of justice of the world to see that right was done in, the end.