CANADA’S HELP TO BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25289, 15 September 1947, Page 6

CANADA’S HELP TO BRITAIN

CONTRIBUTIONS IN WAR AND PEACE BROADCAST ADDRESS BY MR BROOKE CLAXTON “During the war the Canadian Navy kept the bridge of ships open to Britain, and since the war Canada has given or lent to Britain £1,550,000,000, a contribution which, in proportion to resources and population, has not been nearly matched anywhere,” said Mr Brooke Claxton, Canadian Minister of National Defence, in a national broadcast last evening. “Last year we sent Britain k more than 103,000,000 bushels of wheat at 6s a bushel under the world market price, and probably more wheat, meat, eggs and milk products, and cheese, than any single country. “While our ties with Great Britain are, I believe, closer than ever, another factor in the Canadian scene is our relation with the United States. We share with the United States the longest frontier in the world, a frontier not only undefended, but also a frontier which in a sense unites Canada with the United States,” said Mr Claxton. “The boundary between Canada and the United States is crossed by our hockey players going south, by their baseball players coming north, by mote trade, more trains, more travel, and more tourists than any two countries have ever seen before. This does not mean that Canada is in any senss dominated by the United States. It does mean, however, that Canada has a particularly friendly relationship with her great and friendly neighbour. “At the other side of our country, to the north, we have recently discovered that we have another frontier. Across our north country li® the shortest air routes to the great land masses of the world. “While there are differences in the positions of Canada and New Zealand • there are many similarities. There ; are similar Parliamentary institutions. .During my short visit to Wellineton I j was privileged to sit on the floor of I your House and see your Parliament in session, to see the symbols, the

forms and the sentiments of free P®’ liamentary institutions being . vl f erf ously practised by the the Government and by those who long to the Opposition. I can asSl < you that with minor differences have the same thing in Canada, eve to the loyal Opposition. “In Canada we recognise as you that just as there was one war, there is only one peace. The ev® of two wars and a world-wide pression have brought home to all us in every part of the British low monwealth, and to all bke-mmu® 1 peoples throughout the world, the wisation that no part of the world be secure unless all parts are secw» and that no part can long know P™ perity unless all parts are prosP People everywhere agree on thing: they all want peace and J" opportunity for a good way of’ lue. “The war has shown us in c than that we can now produce mor® twice as much as we ever P before. No doubt you h?ve the experience. There is scarcely limit to the caparitv te produce ?»nd services needed bv other But thev must be exchangedcannot be done by setting ud curtains or barriers of any sort can be done only bv working gether. The time ha* lone 'inee by when we can think of out 0 . prosperity in ifcolat’on. Isolation every kind is a dead issue.”