POPULATION OF DOMINIONS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21512, 29 June 1935, Page 15

POPULATION OF DOMINIONS

* A LARGE INCREASE ADVOCATED GREATER INFLUENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS AUTHORITY OF BRITISH PEOPLES (UNITED I'tIHSS ASSOCIATION —F.T VXECTWC TfjLBGEArU—COPYBICUT.) (Received June 28, 9 p.m.) LONDON, June 28. Mr Malcolm Mac Donald (Secretary for the Colonies), reporting oa his centenary visit to Australia, said: "The authority and power of the British peoples depend on their ability to increase the Dominions' populations steadily and largely over a long period. Not only are half-populated countries weak links in the chain of defence, but fateful in the clash of ideas. "A world-wide powerful nation supports a return to the law of the jungle in international affairs. Another advocates class war as a prelude to universal communism. Others believe in abolishing Parliaments, limiting freedom, and establishing dictatorships in order to establish a state of authority. These ideas gain converts daily. "Pitted against them are British ideas of democratic government, individual liberty, and ordered international peace. Great Britain's voice may be too weak if she alone advocates them, but if in the course of years she is surrounded by loyal and powerful Dominions, whose statesmen speak for large world-wide populations, British principles will probably not only hold their own but predominate world affairs."