VALUE OF CONTACT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 213, 23 August 1927, Page 7

VALUE OF CONTACT

BALDWIN’S CANADIAN VISIT THE GOOD IT HAB DONE? EMPIRE IDEAL ABOVE PARTY. (British Office Wireless.) Rugby, August 21. Both British and Canadian Dress comments attach high importance to the successful visit which the British Prime Minister has just concluded in Canada. The “Sunday Observer” declares it is very difficult tn praise too highly the tone of the Prime .Minister’s speeches, and in particular think his tribute to the self-respect, balance, and endurance of the British workers came with grace and truth. The “Observer” adds that political differences need not and will not diminish by a particle the appreciation of his excellent service to the Empire. The Empire ideal is as much above party as is the Crown, and the Prime Minister himself, in the hottest of pblitical battles, has always had a peculiar hold upon the liking and respect of his opponents. Canada will have : ’ r en him some tonic experiences, and he will have a mental, if ont a physical, compensation fqj- his sacrifice of leisure. There is no man who would beathe the free air of the Dominion more easily and more naturally. The “Montreal Gazette” savs:— “Mr Baldwin has performed an invaluable service in combating the ieda that Great Britain was industrially decadent and her working classes bent upon red revolution and he has left a picture which will remain. of the Mother Countrv with her soul and spirit unchanged, battling successfully to overcome the economic difficulties and 1 dislocations caused by the war. For himself he had secured a new and profitable acquaintnce with Canadian problems and Canadian point of view, and he has developed a wholesome intimacy with Canadian public men SINCERE WELCOME AWAITS HIM IN LONDON. London, Aug. 21. “The Observer” editorially says that the sincerest welcome on behalf of all parties awaits the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin on returning from Canada after the first visit to the dominions that any Prime Minister has made while in office. The paper hopes that others will follow his precedent and emphasizes the value of Royalties’ past and the Hon. L. M. Amery's present tour of the Empire, adding, “Mr. Baldwin, besides taking a British message to Canada, went to hsten and to learn. British statesmen do not travel merely to represent Britain but to learn the many things which the dominions can teach them. We might, with advantage, borrow something of the dominions’ drastic touch in facing problems, whether regarding coal, agriculture, slums, or other reforms. Developments in the new spirit in government as evidenced in the dominions would be most valuable.”—(A and N.Z.)