NEW LONDON JOURNAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 January 1927, Page 1

NEW LONDON JOURNAL

TO ASSIST EMPIRE DEVELOP-

MENT

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) • (Australian & N,.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, 31st Dec.

The first number has been issued, of a new .publication, the "London Weekly "-'-(• Hmne" and Overseas). -The ; appearance and make-up are similar to "The Nation" and the "Saturday Review."" The editor, Dr. Haden Guest, Labour Commoner, 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 t.i repair these deficiencies. A great movement for Empire development is already .under way. It must be a great popular movement or it will lose momentum, (iiven popular support,- which only depends upon popular understanding', wx shall be able to escape from the troubles and perplexities of post-war years to a new era of prosperity and vigour Empire organisation can lift us°out'of the ruts of social misery, unemployment, and low standards, of life to a level of prosu-rity rivalling, perhaps exceeding that prevailing in the United States.*' , ■Mr Amerv, in a foreword, says: J.lie Imperial Conference, by removing all ground for misunderstanding in mutual relations of the salt-governing nations of the Empire, cleared the way .or a constructive programme the essentials of which can be summed up in the words 'security ani development.,' The discovery of a common economic policy is the greatest practical problem before us. It cannot be found in anv abstract scheme of free trade or protection. It must be based on a compromise varyino' with local conditions, but r.miing at° the greatest measure of internal free trade within the Empire and the maintenance of the standards of living of each community."