IMPERIALISM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14169, 18 September 1906, Page 7

IMPERIALISM.

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL’S VIEAYS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received September 17, 10.16 p.m.) LONDON, September 17. Mr AVinston Churchill, in his letter to Mr H. Greenwood, M.P., admitted that the confidence shown by Canadian and Australian statesmen in tho only eet of British politicians with whom they had long been accustomed to deal had in great measure been worthily repaid. Conservative predominance synchronised with and generously aided the growth of tho Imperial idea. There were more new men with other principles and different methods, but no change in tho central impulse and aspirations as their ultimate aim. Canada’s and Australasia’s progress and prosperity were largely ascribed to liberal social principles carried in some ways to- far more logical extremes than in tho Motherland. The Empire had nothing to fear from Liberalism, by whose Imperial principles of colonial autonomy, lofty humanity and peaceful foreign policy the structural cohesion of the Empire alone had been achieved and maintained. (Mr AVinston Churchill, writing to Mr Greenwood, M.P., who is travelling in Canada, asked him to try to convince the Canadians that the Conservatives cfo not monopolise the interest in Imperialism. The advent of the Liberals did not mean a weakening of the British affection for the- colonies or the belief in the ultimate aim of a solid defensive league of the free democratic communities, animated by love, peace and-justice, under the leadership of the Crown.)