ALLIANCE URGED

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1937, Page 6

ALLIANCE URGED

AMONG ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS. (Per Press Association—Copyright). AUCKLAND, Mayo 7. An alliance .among the Englishspeaking nations was advocated by Brigadier-General H. -W. Lloyd, « member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, in an address to members of .the Auckland Rotary Club. Brigadier-General Lloyd pointed to the political dangers besetting the world, and emphasised the need ior an alljance between Great. Britain and the Empire on the one band and the United States on the other as the only means of maintaining national secuiity and world civilisation.

The problem of securing the peace of the world, said Brigadier-Genera! Lloyd, was easy of solution but extremely difficult to achieve, and it behoved everybody to push iorward.the means of bringing it about. It uas time to assess the position and face facts, one of the most important of which was that against Great Britain’s population of something more than 40.000,000 Germany had 76,000,000 and, with Austria included, about '120,000,000. During the Great War, Great Britain and her allies had nearly suffered disaster on three different occasions. To-day these allies were more or less uncertain, aud in the event of war it might be that Britain would be without them. If she were isolated by a natural grouping of nations so racially similar as Germany and Austria the scales would be so preponderantly against her that it would be impossible for her to survive. Although Britain had done everything in the last few years to stop war, the groupings of nations were against her, as could be shown by any atlas or geography book, and if circumstances arose she would be utterly lost.

Everything in the world to-day, said Brigadier-General Lloyd, was speed, and the elimination of space liad greatly affected the position between nations, increasing the possibility of sudden and devastating war. America was no longer self-contained. She had interests in all parts of the world, and could not go back to her former isolation without losing everything she had. Therefore—and speeches of prominent Americans bore him out —it was essential for a co-operative alliance between the United States and Great Britain and her Dominions and colonies.

“America would lose everything she has got, if it were not lor Great Britain standing across the path of anyone attempting to trouble her,” he said. “The positions are there, the locations and figures are there, and it is only by an alliance with the United States that we would be protected if Great Britain were engaged in an outbreak in Europe. Divided we are impotent. The duty of us all is to do everything we can to electrify all of those in our home circles with the urgent need for a co-operative alliance between the English-speaking nations.”