SECOND EDITION. The British Empire

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 29 August 1923, Page 6

SECOND EDITION. The British Empire

wmm 0H Np^.wENTs.

% POLICY NECESSARY.

Prow Aus- . irafen ,jffld J. Cap> .. London, August .28. Jsh© Bound published a, striking .article .fa .connection with the .^m^rial. tQjnfarpnce, urging the ,necjp6siity pi reining .to Britain's, traditional policy of entanglement .in .Wjlat {the late Sir iVYilfred k iUurier .called "The Vortex of Euro,i hjji purpose that the Empire _ should, .be .involved in , attempts to stabilise a complex of hates, spspicipns, and • fears, -which must continue while the - ,ipeople ~:.o# Europe ; are divided into , vltatwrtfeht compartmepts, determined, |to>, t corQperate with each .other. jMtyreqjfer the British Commonwealth contains more popple arid terr%ry, than Europe itself, and has not a „,.ifoot ,of territory on the European mainlai|.d, Jfj Britain is induced to; join -an European .alliance, it is cer4hjd would not ,cpn-- ; • , %mt W Jflin- The J}pniinipns wW no, lqnger give a ¥sߣ cheque Ahe ibest tfyjy can with foreign .politics. J They ,sjk regard themselves, 'zsfa t whereto theirj SfajcliainentSii hare ,not given assent. ?sOfar;a«.Aradeip concerned, Britam ; now decide i whether sJsy survive a® • separate b and Be&ci^tW e £ %»* units - s*• "jjfcjr BirjUtain 4*> epnsjder whether it is 1 In©*, ; ww&h ier .while to .secure ; ,a| ..^rfltecied*. Empire ,mao;ket for :her , pri>4ucts, in .exchange fpr giving thef - a protected market for their food products in Britain. The 1 jpffecfc of such a .policy, would be to .Aoyr up the development of new imanufautur.es in ,$e for a time, but would sljunulatp primary industry and draw population into' ~ new; .tteitpries, ,thus diminishing ..vunemploKXpent in Britain. I" 7 ; Mr Bruoe's suggestion in w,ith a rodentAustrian Minister \n Lpndon,*fwJioi ;sfyra]d ibaiye access /to Cabinet doou- , .."inAtats, the jwritej .points.out the diifi.eulty in the; fading Dominions' to reside in iLon- . '' colleagues ,and constituents. He sjiyg *'jwble 'i&Jfc* P***" .fern ,pf Jmperiaj diplomacy is ithat each Dominion should .develop a • specialised fliplp.niatio service, the iUaa&a4K% duties <?f ,Fn( c h would be lq6dwed*4n liondon, but .the repre-, , sentatirog "nffluld ( alsp move .about .' sfcrvptj * ,the ! British-^Min- . I istert abjois, and peeping the I>ominion Goyecnnients in touch with 'jwpjfld:*p?pblems.