BRITAIN’S LEAD

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 9

BRITAIN’S LEAD

COLONISATION AND ITS ESSENTIALS. “With their past diplomacy and with more limited means than have been at Italy’s disposal, the British have conquered a qur. ter of the globe. Why? Because their colonisation was made possible by trade and private enterprise. The only real colonial war that Britain ever carried on was that in South Africa, but that was the result of underestimating the- resistance of the Boers, not of foresight. They knew that, once the war was won, no matter how. the diamonds and the gold mines would ripay them beyond the dreams of avarice. Free circulation of capital is the essential condition for profitable colonisation. In a recent polemic editorial, the Giornale d’ltalia affirmed that, on the contrary, with faith and willing hands at their disposal, the financial question would come second. It is a ftnesounding sentence. But when the time comes to colonise seriously, it will be seen how significant the lad. of adequate capital is.”—From Guiatizi e Liberta (Paris Anti-Fascist monthly).