SPIRITUAL TIES OF EMPIRE

Southland Times, Issue 25835, 21 November 1945, Page 5

SPIRITUAL TIES OF EMPIRE

EXAMPLE TO REST OF WORLD - (Rec. 9 p.m.) OTTAWA, November 19. Addressing the joint Session of the Canadian Senate and House of Commons, the British Prime Minister, Mr Attlee, said the British Commonwealth was bound together by spiritual, not material, ties, and offered the world an example which should be noted and followed. The strands, which composed the ties, were acceptance of the rule of law, belief in the practice of the principles of democracy and liberty, and acknowledgment of a common standard of moral values. “It is my view that these are the spiritual ties which must bind together all nations, if we are to make the United Nations Organization a living entity,” Mr Attlee said. “Civilization will be destroyed if the world does not tackle the problems confronting it with the same enthusiasm that the scientists showed in research. Britain does not intend to follow any exclusive trade policy. I believe that, in the future as in the past, the general well-being of the countries of the British Commonwealth will be changed by „ their economies being complementary.”