OBLIGATIONS OF DOMINIONS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20772, 4 February 1933, Page 11

OBLIGATIONS OF DOMINIONS.

CANADA'S POSITION, NEW ZEALAND'S «NOBLE« OFFER. (MOM 013* OTfK COKEKBPOKDKNT.) LONDON, December 22. Mr G. H. Ferguson, the High Commissioner for Canada, writes to "The Times" on the subject of war debts and New Zealand's timely gesture. "The debts offer which has been made to Britain by New Zealand and Australia," he says, "to which you re- j fer in your admirable leading article' to-day, is indeed a noble one and constitutes a remarkable expression of the spirit of loyalty and devotion which inspires the "Empire as a whole. "I trust you will not think me guilty of drawing" an invidious distinction or of detracting in the slightest degree from the significance of the sacrifice her sister-Dominions are prepared to make if, in order to place the whole problem of intra-Imporial indebtedness in its true perspective, I refer to-the position of Canada. •'Canada's payments have never been suspended, for the reason that she has no financial obligation to Britain m respect of war debts. She was in the fortunate position of being able to add to the sacrifice of her own sons n the battlefield the lesser economic sacrifice of hearing her own financial burdens during the struggle, and she did so with a will. "As I have indicated, I do not raise the point in any spirit of discrimina--1 tion, but simply in order that the people as a whole might be able to view comprehensively the Imperial obligations which have again been brought to the ! attention of the public by the splendid gesture of New Zealand and Australia.'