BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY AND THE DOMINIONS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22375, 12 April 1938, Page 15

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY AND THE DOMINIONS

tO THB KDITOB OV TBB PRBSB. Sir, —Some days ago you published a cablegram which must have disturbed the minds of most New Zealanders. It was to the effect that the foreign policy of Great Britain was not acceptable to New Zealand, and, although that cablegram was very disturbing to all true lovers of the British Empire, Mr Savage, as Prime Minister of New Zealand, refused to comment upon it. That is still more disturbing. Does it mean that at last New Zealand is not heart and soul with the Mother Country in a matter of vital interest to the well-being of the Empire? Do the words of a colonial poet now mean nothing to New Zealand:— Unite the Empire, make it stand compact Shoulder to shoulder, let its members feel The touch of human brotherhood and As one great Empire, true and strong as steel. The very existence of New Zealand as a unit of the British Empire depends upon the unanimity of its thought and action with the Mother Country, and if the Prime Minister and his CaLinet think that it can stand out alone, or. in defiance of, or independent of Great Britain, then the sooner they are swept from power the better for the country.—Yours, etc.. IMPERIALIST. April 11, 1938.