IF BRITAIN TURNED PACIFIST
Sir Walter Layton examined what he believed would be the consequences if Britain became pacifist, in addressing the Liberal Summer School. Unless the United States were prepared to take Australia it would be taken by Japan. Canada might remain independent, but certainly federated to the United States. South Africa would disintegrate, and he would not like to forecast the details. Egypt and the Sudan would go to Italy or Germany. Britain, an overpopulated island, would at the least have to face a fall in its standard of life. It was true Norway and Sweden had a good standard of living without an empire, but they had enjoyed the advantages of the state of affairs created by British free trade. There would be war between Russia and Germany and civil war in Central Europe. Some people thought there would be that in any case, and that the-Spanish revolt was the precursor. Certainly there would be if democracy had nothing to say.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 September 1936, Page 3
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