IMPERIAL UNION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143647, 15 November 1911, Page 3

IMPERIAL UNION.

THE GREAT PROBLEM. FOR BRITISH STATESMEN. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received. Nov. 15, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 14. Sir Donald MKenzio Wallace, in a speech at the Authors' Club, dealing with Imperial obligations, said that the antiquated idea of a great Empire, governed by a group of clerks in Downing Street, was out of the question, but what was to bo new nexus holding together the sporadic units? It was unreasonable to expect the present powerful sentimental tie of brotherhood of itself to resist for all time the centrifugal force of local interests. It must be supported and strengthened by prosaic material advantages. He could only imagine two types of Imperial federation, one resembling tlio old German Zollveroin, the other a free trade union strong enough to compote with the rest of the world. Better types might be discovered, but the solution of the problem would constitute a triumph of statesmanship.