LONG, HARD ROAD

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 9

LONG, HARD ROAD

Journey to World Peace EMPIRE RESPONSIBILITY (British Official Wireless.) , Rugby, April 18. In a broadcast address on the responsibilities of Empire, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, said that despite the difficulties and dangers with which the world was beset, he believed it would in the end find peace and prosperity. But the journey would be long and hard, and for it there was need of a common effort of resolution, of endurance, and, above all, of leadership. No group of countries was so well qualified to provide leadership as those of the British Commonwealth, not because the British were necessarily better than other people, but because of their experience and the lessons of mutual co-operation in the solution of problms which it afforded. "We have demonstrated in actual practice that difficulties can be resolved by discussion as they cannot be resolved by force,” he said. It had been shown that tolerance created confidence and confidence ’harmony. The British Commonwealth was founded on the conception that war between its component parts was unthinkable —impossible. Might not the conception be serviceable on a still wider scale? Mr. Baldwin concluded: “The British peoples have always set before them the ideal of freedom, and more than ever to-day it is their duty to maintain and to justify that ideal.”