MR. BRUCE'S COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 109, 4 November 1927, Page 7

MR. BRUCE'S COMMENT

LACK OF CO-OPERATION

TIME LOST BUT NOT TOO LATg

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, 3rd November. At a Parliamentary dinner at Canberra, the Australian Federal Capital, Mr. Stanley Bruce, Federal Prime Minister, welcomed Mr. Leopold Amerv. the beeretary for the Dominions. He said that no Empire statesman had done more to bring about the recent remarkable achievement of modern Empire government or laboured more unceasingly to enforce its realisation. Mr. Bruce referred to Sir Alfred Mond-s speech in London suggesting the Empire as an economic unit, and said that until recently we had applied to the economic relationship of Empire those haphazard and unsympathetic methods which characterised political relationship before the loss of the American colonies. As a result we wero mistress of the seas, owning the bulk of the world's shipping and fertile lands in every portion cf the globe, and producing man's every necessity, but owing to lack of co-operation we were challenged in the race for economic supremacy. British markets within the Empire itself had been permitted to go to foreign rivals. Many golden opportunities had been wasted but the time was not yet too late! Australia wanted to develop her country with British stock, to buy Empire goods, and sell Australian exports in. Empire markets.

Replying, Mr. Ainery advised all to work together for the advancement of the Empire, cultivating a -wide Imperialistic outlook and higher ideals

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