EMPIRE AND WAR
POSITION OF CANADA
MONROE DOCTRINE FIRST
TORONTO, September 12."
A Canadian delegate, addressing the British Commonwealth Relations , Conference today, said that Canada was inclined to depend to a greater degree for protection upon the Monroe Doctrine than upon- thd British Fleet, ne said there was nothing particularly undignified in such a policy, because Canada's position1 in North America brought it under the principle of the Monroe Doctrine—that it should not be subject to European conquest.
A British delegate agreed with pro-' vious Canadian speakers that the Dominions were moro interested in tranquillity and peace than in European squabbles. His opinion was that, if tho British Empiio stood for war; whilo tho League of Nations stood for peaco, people would put tho League befpro tho Empire. Ho agreed that tho Empire should look to tho Dominions for. aid iv timo of war. Tho Empire policy, however, was pacific. If Britain entered a war it would bo under the covenant of the League, and therefore it would be a Leaguo war rather than an Empire war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 11
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EMPIRE AND WAR
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 11
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