EMPIRE AND OTTAWA

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 24, 30 January 1933, Page 10

EMPIRE AND OTTAWA

COMPLETE REVOLUTION '

MR- BRUCE'S VIEWS

* (Received 30th January, 2 p.m.)' LONDON, 29th January. "I have not yet overcome my affe_«' tion for the British Empire, and I much; prefer that description to British Com- '. monwealth," said Mr. Stanley Bruce, ; . in proposing the British. Commonwealth \ in accordance with the toast list at » ' Birmingham banquet given by the' Jewellers and Silversmiths' Association.; He added, that every Britisher over- j ' seas had been thrilled with pride atj the courage and integrity shown by the} . British people during the past two ) . years, when British finances had been; 5 the most- important factor in the af-5 fairs of the Empire and the . worid. 1 Ottawa meant a complete revolution^ w for members of the Empire. The" policy;] which Australia and Canada adopted-i was a policy of sanity. '/You were j wedded to Free Trade as though it were j a god,, but we were wedded to Protec-i' - tion as though it were a super-god. The! arrangements made at Ottawa are going 1 to mean reciprocal arrangements such,-' as we never dreamt of in the past.",