BRITISH UNITY

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1930, Page 6

BRITISH UNITY

1 . . ] ' c MR SOULLIN’S ADVOCACY.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph..—Copyright.)

LONDON, Oct. 23.

“I :am no flag dagger, hut nevertheless, I strongly believe in the unity of ; the British Commonwealth or Nations said the Hon. Jas. H.'Scullin. Australian Prime Minister,, ad-, dressing the National; Trade Union Club. “I have come to the Imperial Conference representing a nation, 'and not a Political Party. I do not come here-to dictate that all Britons must 1 change their methods because, they are different from ours, but my cliief object is to knot closer the bonds of friendship' and of sympathy. I believe that we could some closer, along trade lines, finding markets lor each other’s manufactures.” Mr Scullin added:-— “I have been an onlooker, from afar, at European movements. I have not felt that Britain’s or foreigner’s diplomacy 1 has been right, but I have felt that Britain has stood higher in the estimation of the people throughout the world than ever owing to her Labour Government’s; wonderful leap towards disarmament ■ and world peace. It was the most genuine move pn British; history-,- a nioye for which I raised my. hat to Mr Ramsay...MacDonald, and his colleagues.”

.WHERE -DOMINIONS LEAD, -. general hertzog’s broap- :. , ; . v- cast.. - : • rugby, oct. 22. ; General Hertzog, Prime Minister of South Africa, broadcasting on the of the Imperial Conference, said •that although the work that is being done in the field of economic pooperation was attracting much notice, other work of the very greatest importance and significance was also being accomplished. Problems resolved Constitutional questions bequeathed by the 1926 Imperial Conference were being dealt with in a manner and a spirit which entitled the delegates to’ feel confident that the present Imperial Conference would inL every t?epect remain true to the spirit of predecessor, and- would attain no less happy results fOrthe future. *.• Whereas &t the previous • conference .. . theconstitutional need for :a;Briti sli - Coi ■imonwealtff of Nations had demanded a- r&adjuistmenfc. constitutional , jpriiJoiple to constitutional development, at the;present conference it was- a readjustment of the economic problems bringing Great Britain’s fiscal policy into 1 harmony with the economic needs of the various member states of the British Commonwealth, herself includ1 That involved-a* new problem which was certainly no.-dess difficult in the solving If, therefore, the piesent' Conference shpuld eventually ’prove less fruitful in its economic labours than the individual require--ments led -them-hope, it should not be forgotten that 1 what was expected from Great Britain in order to meet the 'Dominion requirements, and also her own, was hardly less than a revolution in fiscal practice no less ■thani "in. economic theory. Should she), therefore, tell them . that a change which involved; io&uch national issues could .not be decicied -dntil after close and mature ation, South Africa could have no reason to complain. It must fee clear to everybody - that the conflict between. • free trade and production fer Great Britain had been decided. ! - '