NEW LONDON WEEKLY

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1927, Page 9

NEW LONDON WEEKLY

AID TO EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT. FOREWORD BY MR. AMERY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 31. The first number has been issued of the new publication, The London Weekly, Home and Overseas. In appearance and make-up it is similar to the Nation and the Saturday Retview. The editor is Dr. Haden Guest, a Labour M.P., who, m an introductory article, says: “We in Great Britain know far too little of life in the Dominions and colonies, and people in the Dominions know too little of our lives and special difficulties and problems. The London Weekly hopes to repair these deficiencies. A great movement for Empire development is already under way. It must be a great, popular movement or it will lose momentum. Given popular support, which only depends upon popular understanding, we shall be able to escape from the troubles and perplexities of the post-war years to a new era of prosperity. Vigour in Empire organisation can lift us out of the ruts of social misery, unemployment and low standards of life to a level of prosperity rivalling and perhaps exceeding that prevailing in the United States.”

The Secretary for the Dominions, Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery, in a foreword, says: “The Imperial Conference, by removing all ground for misunderstandings in the mutual relations of the self-governing nations of the Empire, cleared the way for a constructive programme, the essentials of which ean be summed up in the words, ‘Security and Development.’ The discovery of a common economic policy is the greatest practical problem before us. It cannot be found in any abstract scheme of free trade or protection; it must be based on a compromise varying with local conditions but aiming at the greatest measure of international free trade within the Empire and the maintenance of the standards of living in each community. ”