EMPIRE PROBLEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 29, 3 January 1927, Page 7

EMPIRE PROBLEMS.

NEW PUBLICATION’S ARTICLES

“SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT.” LONDON, Dec. 31. The first number has been issued of a new publication, the London Weekly Home and Overseas. Its appearance and make-up are similar to The Nation and Saturday Review. The editor, Dr. Hadcn Guest, the Labour M.P., in an introductory article, says: “We in Britain know far too little of life in the Dominions and colonies, and the people in the Dominions know too little of our lives and special difficulties and problems. The London Weekly hopes to repair these deficiencies. A great movement for Empire development is already under way. It must be a great and popular movement, or it will lose momentum. Given popular support, which only depends upon popular understanding, we shall be able to escape from the troubles and perplexities of the post-war years to a new era of prosperity. Vigour in Empire organisation can lift us out of the ruts of social misery unemployment and low standards of life to a level of prosperity rivalling, and perhaps exceeding, that prevailing in the United States.” Mr Ameiy, in a foreword, says: “The Imperial Conference bv removing all ground for misunderstandings in the mutual relations of the self-governing nations of the Empire cleared the way for a constructive programme, the essentials of which can be summed up in the words ‘security and development.’ The discovery of a common economic policy is the greatest practical problem before us. It cannot bo found in any abstract scheme of Free Trade or Protection. It must be based on a compromise varying with local conditions, but aiming at the greatest measure of internal Free Trade within the Empire and the maintenance of the standards of living of each community.”— A. and N.Z. cable.