APPEAL FOR WORLD CO-OPERATION

Southland Times, Issue 23178, 20 April 1937, Page 7

APPEAL FOR WORLD CO-OPERATION

MR BALDWIN CITES EMPIRE AS EXAMPLE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, April 17. In an address on the responsibilities of Empire the Prime Minister (Mr Stanley Baldwin) said that despite the difficulties and dangers with which the world was beset he balieved that it would in the end find peace and prosperity, but the journey would be long and hard and for it there was need of a common effort of resolution, of endurance and above all of leadership. No group of countries was so well qualified to provide leadership as those of the British Commonwealth not because the British were necessarily better than other people, but because of their experience and of the lessons of mutual co-operation in the solution of problems which it afforded. “We have demonstrated in actual practice that difficulties can be resolved by discussion as they cannot by force,” Mr Baldwin said. “It has been shown that tolerance creates confidence and confident- harmony. The British Commonwealth of Nations was founded on the conception that war between its component. parts was, unthinkable, impossible. Might not that conception be serviceable on a still wider scale? “The British peoples have always set before them the ideal of freedom and more than ever today it is their duty to maintain and justify that ideal.”