FROUDE’S WORDS RECALLED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 49

FROUDE’S WORDS RECALLED.

A CURRENT AIEANING.

LONDON, October 3.

A correspondent writes to the Morning Post pointing out a passage in Herbert Paul’s “ Life of Fronde,” which reads: “ The moral Froude drew from his travels in Australia, New Zealand, and the West Indies was the need of strengthening the Imperial ties, while he dreaded the intervention of party leaders and desired the colonies to take the initiative themselves. He thought that a common tariff was the direction in which true Imperialism should move.” The correspondent adds that Froude died in 1894, yet his words contained a very current meaning.

J. A. Froude, a famous British historian, was twice sent on missions to South Africa by Lord Beaconsfield’s Government, and he later visited the other dominions. He was afterwards professor of modern history at Oxford University.