NO EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 155, 29 March 1937, Page 9

NO EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Canada’s Defence Plan

PROTECTION OF OWN COUNTRY Navy Useful in Pacific By Telegraph.—l’l'ess Assn.—Copyright. (Received March 28. 6.30 p.m.) Ottawa, Mareli 27. The opinion that ir is doubtful if Great Britain, much less the Dominions. will ever send an expeditionary force to Europe, was expressed by the Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, speakintr in the House of Commons. The Leader of the Conservative Opposition. Mr. R. B. Bennett, urged more naval co-operation with Britain. “That, was Sir Wilfred Laurier's policy,” he said. Mr. Mackenzie King declared that the Government's present policy stressed the defence of Canada, but that was not because co-operation with Britain had been abandoned. Mr. Bennett stated that Canada must bear in mind not only the defence of Canada and of the Empire, but of civilisation as a whole.

Mr. Mackenzie King further stated that the Canadian Navy would be useful for war in the Pacific, and Australia would be able to give great assistance.

lie declared that the Liberals would continue to stand by Sir Wilfred Laurier’s policy.

WASHINGTON VISIT

Lord Tweedsmuir to Arrive on Tuesday (Received Marcli 29, 12.30 a.m.) New York, March 28. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says that the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir, on the first occasion a Canadian Governor-General has paid an official visit to Washington, will arrive there on Tuesday. He will be a guest at a dinner at the White House and at a luncheon tendered by the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, and will also be received by Congress. The occasion is expected to provide an opportunity to survey CanadianAmerican relations. Similarly, when the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie-King, pays his coming visit, it is expected that attention will be given to the political relationship of the two nations in view of the approaching Imperial Conference and because of the role Canada has long played as interpreter of the United States to the Empire.