BRITISH LEAD NEEDED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22835, 20 March 1936, Page 4

BRITISH LEAD NEEDED

Since the, existence of a World Commonwealth is postulated from the moment when collective security is recog-nised-as a political principle, all the members of the League, whether big or small, are hound to act along the lines of tlie World Commonwealth and not along those of their own national interests narrowly understood, writes Senor Salvador do' Madariaga, former Oxford professor, in a recent article. That being so, and since the great Powers have a greater weight and therefore a greater responsibility than the others in’'the working of the League, my contention is that they are bound to lead by acting, not merely within the machinery of the League, lint in the spirit of the Covenant, that is, by pooling their power in the League instead of drawing power from the League, and by handling world affairs in a world way. This evolution is a more extension to the whole world of a typically British idea, that of Commonwealth, which Britain had already applied to a considerable part of her Empire. It is therefore natural to expect that the leadership needed at the present phase of world history will he provided by the political genius of the British people.