EMPIRE'S FUTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 7

EMPIRE'S FUTURE

CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY NEW JOURNAL ISSUED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.; (Received January 3, 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. Tho first number is issued of a new publication, London Weekly Home and Overseas. In appearance and make-up it is similar to the Nation and Saturday Review.

The editor, Dr. Haden Guest, a labor M.P., in his introductory article, says:

"We in Britain know far too little of life in the Dominions and the colonies, and people in the Dominions know very little of our lives, and our .special difficulties and problems. The London Weekly hopes to repair these deficiencies. A great movement for Empire development is already under way. It must be a great popular movement, or it will lose momentum. Uiven popular support, which only depends upon a popular understanding, we shall be able to escape from the troubles and perplexities of post-war years to a new era of prosperity. More vigor in Empire organisation can lift us out of the ruts of social misery, unemployment, and low standards of life to a level of prosperity rivalling, and perhaps exceeding that in the United States."

Mr, L. C. M. S. Amery, in a foreword, says : "The Imperial Conference, by removing all ground for misunderstandings in the mutual relations of the selfgoverning nations of the Empire, cleared the way for a constructive programme, the essentials of which can be summed up in the words 'security and development.' Discovery of a common economic policy is the greatest practical problem before us. It cannot be found in any abstract scheme of free trade or protection. It must be based on a compromise varying with local conditions, and aiming at the greatest measure' of internal free trade within the Empire, and the maintenance of flip standards of living of each community."