POLICY OF PEACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 9

POLICY OF PEACE

BRITISH EMPIRE PROTECTION IN WAR THE MONROE DOCTRINE CANADIAN LEANING DELEGATE'S STATEMENT E'y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 13, 5.15 p.m.) TORONTO. Sept. 12 A Canadian delegate stated at the British Commonwealth Relations Conference to-day that Canada was inclined to depend to a greater degree for protection upon the Monroe Doctrine than upon the British Fleet. There was nothing particularly undignified in such a policy, said the speaker, because the position of North America brought it under the principle of the Monroe Doctrine —that it should not be subject to European conquest.

A British delegate agreed with previous Canadian speakers that the Dominions were more interested in tranquility and peace than in European squabbles. His opinion was that if the British Empire stood for war while the League of Nations Btood for peace the people would put the League before the Empire. This delegate said he agreed that the Empire should look to tho Dominions for aid in timo of war. The Empire's policy, however, was pacific. If Britain entered a war it would be under tho Covenant of the League,' therefore a League war rather than an Empire war.