SECURITY OF EMPIRE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 349, 2 May 1935, Page 6

SECURITY OF EMPIRE

PACIFIC DANGER POINT I I NOTED WRITER’S VIEWS. i AUCKLAND, April 28. “I think the Empire would be much more prosperous aud much more secure if its white population wore better distributed, ’ said Sir Frank Eox, tlhe noted writer on Empire subjects, after’ his arrival by the Wangairella from Sydney. “X' would like to see 20,000,000 more people of the British race settled around the shores of the Pacific' Ocean. The Pacific is at piesent the danger point, *’ he added.

“As far as world peace is concerned the strength of the British race is possibly the best guarantee of world peace because our race better than any other has learned 1 the lesson of playing fair to other 'peoples'. One has a perfect example of this in Hew Zealand in the maimer ih which the Maoris have beeu encouraged to take their full share 1 in the development of their country, siaid Sir Frank Fox. ' *

“Great Britain lias disarmed far too much,’* ho continued. “The only guarI antce for international peace is a strong and fully equipped British Empire. The Singapore Base is a great factor fox the safety of Australia and New Zealand, and the active interest that' your Dominion has taken in the base shows that your Government is fully alive to its importance in maintaining peace in the Pacific. With the rise of Japan it is essential that the Empire and especially those parts of it overseas, should consolidate it position. In 1912 I advocated in my book ‘Mastery of the Pacific, 'that cordial co-operation with the United States was the solution for Pacific safety, and the position is the same to-day/’