BRITAIN’S TRUST

Southland Times, Issue 18938, 11 May 1923, Page 5

BRITAIN’S TRUST

TO AID HUMANITY SPEECH BY MR LLOYD GEORGE. IBy Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 9. (Received May 10, 8.55 p.m.) Mr Lloyd George, speaking at the Colonial Missionary Society’s Convention in the City Temple, referred to the millions of men from the British Empire who served during the war. “How I wish there was one word of appreciation of that fact in France and Belgium.” One day the ex-Premier said the people would discover the possibilities and the resources of the Empire. Just now they could not believe it, but one day they would believe and great movements of population would begin. The need of man for more room would drive him farther into the empty spaces of the earth. Cicero had said that States were made of hearths and altars. The migrants would establish hearths but would they set up altars? The new theory that the Empire was a trust to be strengthened and utilised for the benefit of humanity had. grown largely in recent years. They now realised that the British Empire had saved the liberty of the world.