MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING NEEDED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 9

MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING NEEDED

AIM OF NEW PUBLICATION

MR. AMEBY ON COMMON ECONO

MIC POLICY,

(United Press Association.—Copyright!) LONDON, 31st December.

The first number has been issued of a new publication, the .-'London Weekly Home and Overseas." Its appearance and make-up are similar to "The Nation" and "Saturday Review." The editor, Dr. Haden Guest, the Labour M.P., in an introductory article, says: "We in Britain know far too little of life in the Dominions and colonies, and the people in the Dominion, know too little of our lives and special difficulties and problems. 'The London Weekly' hopes to repair these deficiencies. A great movement for Empire development is already under way. It must be a great and jiopular movement, or it will lose momentum. Given popular support, whieli only depends upon popular understanding, we shall be able to escape from the troubles and perplexities of the post-war years to a new era of. prosperity. Vigour in Empire organisation can liftus out of the ruts,of social misery, unemployment, low standards of life to a level of prosperity rivalling, and perhaps exceeding, that prevailing in the United States." .. Mr. Anicry, Secretary for the Dominions, in a foreword,-.says: "The Imperial Conference by removing all •ground for misunderstandings in the mutual relations of the self-governing nations of the Empire cleared the way for a constructive programme, the essentials of which can be summed up in the words ' Security' and' Development.' The discovery of a common economic policy is the greatest practical problem before us.' It cannot be found in any abstract scheme of Free-trade or Protection. It must Jje based on a compromise varying with local conditions, but aiming at the greatest measure of internal Free-trade ' within■■■ the Empire and the maintenance of the standards of liv. ing of each community.":, .-'