THE EMPIRE’S HELP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 25 May 1934, Page 7

THE EMPIRE’S HELP.

CAUSE OF PEACE.

LONDON, May 24,

Apropos of Empire Day most newspapers carry editorials, and special pages of advertisements and write-ups on Dominion products. The Morning Post says: “Perhaps the chief certainty left in the world is the British Empire and its continuance.”

The Times says: “In the world to-day there are overwhelming difficulties in the way of achieving anything like universal peace ail'd freedom. An era of suspicious nationalism seems to make that ideal more remote than ever, but unquestionably the way to attain it lies through a gradual grouping of nations prepared to work and trade together and live in peace with one another. One group already formed for this great purpose is tlie group of British nations and dependencies.”

CELEBRATION IN SCHOOLS

NEW ZEALAND ADVERTISED,

Received May 25, 12.40 p.m. LONDON, May 24. Despite the Socialists’ preference for the term British Commonwealth, a large number of schools retained the title Empire Day for the celebrations. Empire Day was observed with tlie usual ceremonies. New Zealand displayed her products in four West End stores and 100 suburban shops.