BRITAIN'S DUTY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19258, 13 March 1928, Page 9

BRITAIN'S DUTY.

"MAKE DEMOCRACY SAFE FOR WORLD." EARL BALFOUR'S PLEA. (BT CABLE—PHESS ASSOCIATION-—COPTBIGHT.) tAUSIRALIAK AND N.S. AND SCS CABLE) LONDON, March 11. "I will give you a truer catchword than 'Make the world safe for Democracy.' It is 'Make Democracy safe for the world,' " said the Earl of Balfour, addressing the Junior Imperial League Conference overflow meeting from Albert Hall at Hyde Park.

He emphasised the advantage the British Empire possessed in the Crown in solving the problem of Government. The Crown was not ouly an historic link with past centuries, but was also the supreme head, ahoye Party quarrels, to which Tories, Liberals, and Labourites alike were able to look up as a symbol of the nation s unity, regarded similarly throughout the Empire. "We will not get a perfect democracy," he said, •'until everyone does his "duty, resulting in everyone having his rights. The truest Democracy, is patriotism, and begins with faith in, and love for, home and kinsmen. Thereafter it can be carried in everwidening circles, until it embraces the universe. If Great Britain fails in working out its democracy, it will shake the fabric of the nations, because our trust is not only for Great Britain, but also for our people throughout the world, and hundreds of millions following the path we have carved out, which we believe, despite many faults, has ensured the greatest happiness, for the world's peoples. "It is essential for the world's peace that Great Britain should stand like a rock among waves, however rough. Never have the other peoples of the world looked more to Great Britain, to give an example of well-ordered political progress towards perfection, whereby Britons may make the greatest contribution to the ultimate perfection of the world."