BRITISH IDEAS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 9

BRITISH IDEAS

IN CLASH OF lEtEALS

NEED FOR LOYAL DOMINIONS

GROWING, POPULATION

United Press 'Association- -By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LOMDON, June 27. The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mb. Maloolm Mac Donald*, reporting on his centenary visit to Australia, said: "The authority 'and power oi ihe British peoples depends on ability to increase the Dominion populations steadily and largely aver a long period. Not only are half-populated countries weak, links in the chain oi! defence, butt fateful in a clash of ideas." He proceeded^ "A vrorld-wide powerful nation supports a return to the law of the jungle in international affairs. Another advocates class war as a prelude to universal comm.unism. Others believe in abolishing parliaments, limiting freedom, and establishing dictatorships in order to establish State authority. These ideas- gain converts daily. "Pitted against them afce the British ideas of democratic government, individual liberty, and ordered international peace. Great Btritair.'s voice may be too weak if she .alone advocates them, but if, in the course of I years, she is surrounded by loyal and powerful Dominions whose statesmen speak for large world-wide populations, British principles will probably not only hold their own but predominate in world affairs."