EMPIRE DOOMED!

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 October 1926, Page 5

EMPIRE DOOMED!

DEAN INGE’S STATEMENTS DENOUNCED BY SIR ALFRED MOND PRONOUNCEMENTS BOOMED IN AMERICA (By Electric Telegraph -Copyright) (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, 12th Oct. Sir Alfred Mond, arriving at Southampton from America, where he interviewed leading financiers, denounced the extraordinarily foolish pronouncements of Dean Inge. American newspapers were full of pictures and headlines giving prominence to the doom of the British Empire. It was intolerable that business men engaged in difficult negotiations should have to meet this defeatist, atmosphere giving prominence to tho decadence of Europo and Ann?, rica’s overwhelming superiority.

Doan Inge, in his hook on “England" states: “British naval supremacy is ended, and with it. the instrument whereby wo have built up and maintained the Empire. We are no longer rich enough to build ships against possible rivals, (lie Americans. By insisting on the repayment of the debt incurred on behalf of France, which we rashly put our names to secure, we remain permanently fributorv to them, incapable of challenging them on the water. Our postlion ns a world power is permanently altered for tho worse. . . . 1 lie future of Canada is problematical. The danger of Americanisation is ever present. The future of India is lying on the knees'of tho gods. A Socialist Government would he the signal for dangerous disturbances, in India. Uncertainty about the future is doing incalculable harm to the British Flag.