EMPIRE BUILDING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 12

EMPIRE BUILDING.

BRITISH ACHIEVEMENT. NAZI JOURNAL’S PRAISE. LONDON, Feb. 7. Britain’s achievement in Empire building is praised by the Schwarze Korps, organ of tho Nazi Black Guards, which calls it “a work of peace.” “A cultured people, not a military State, created the British Empire,” it says. The article begins by explaining the necessity of viewing both the constructive achievements and the weaknesses of others. It proceeds: “Not only the creation of such a far-flung Empire, not only the historic achievement embodied in the successful completion of so great an enterprise, calls forth our respect; but also that indefinable something that lifts this work of human hands beyond the mere political sphere. “Some conquerors have knit together similar expanses, but only a very small part of the British Empire has been conquered by force. It is a work of peace. That is the secret of its strength.” _ Comparing the British with the Boman Empire, the journal concludes that while Rome concentrated on creating civil codes, Britain from the beginning was a Nordic nation, creating civilisation. It adds: “A cultured people, not a military State, created the British Empiro. One must see the British Columbian forests, the South African gold districts and the Ganges River, in order to understand Great Britain s accomplishments for mankind. “If North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are to-day Places where the white race live com- ! fortably, Europe owes this principally to the audacious spirit of enterprise land tenacious work of the English.”