NO AUTONOMY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17185, 8 November 1926, Page 7

NO AUTONOMY

AUSTRALIA'S POSITION

HER VIP.VV OF AMERICA

TIMES' EDITORIAL COMMV.NT

(Elec Tel. Copyright- United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (I'eceived November 8, 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 7. The Times, in an editorial, says:— " The natural affinity of Australians for Americans to which Mr. P>ruce gave a picturesque expression by remarking that Australia would have sided with the American colonists in the revolution, is a. factor in worldl peace which some of us are prone to overlook. Mr. Bruce's words are said to have, caused surprise to some British Tories. It is unfashionable in these days in Europe for anyone in authority to express sympathy for America's attitude. " Mr. Brute was killing two birds with one stone. He reminded the American audience before whom he spoke that on many questions his people and ours feel alike. He was, at the same time, expressing to the English people a strong sentiment of Australians that they were entitled to the fullest measure of autonomy within the, frame of the Empire, That Australia possesses independence in everything but the label of Government has long been obvious. Troublemongers occasionally endeavored to pretend that the, natural relations between Australians and Americans might- ultimately lead Australians to cling to the United States, rather than England."