CANADA, THE EMPIRE, AND COMMUNISM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17653, 28 September 1925, Page 8

CANADA, THE EMPIRE, AND COMMUNISM.

To the Editor. Fir,. When Historicus ” states, in your issue of last Saturday, that the establishment of absolute free trade within the Empire might cost us “ the loss of Canada, which is already on the .road to complete economic union with the. United States.” he does not seem to have taken into consideration the attitude. of the Canadian people. If many leading Canadians are to be bebclieved, the average Canadian regards union with the United States much as the average New Zealander would regard the possibility of this country's becoming a dependency of New South Wales, onec again. Also, in his appeal to “every classconscious individual, every anti-Im-perialist crank who has a drop of Brit [

ish blood in him.” “Ilistoricu's” omits ;; large body «•;’ worthy New Zealand riti- ns who would greatly benefit by .1 vigorous :ha king up This class < mi. is « ( those people, calling them- • Ac. Imperialists, who continually bbai about the glory of. England and the Empire, and then sit back, well pleased themselves, while the So \ et rets to work i<> poison and shatter the nation under their very noses. England to-day is facing the crisis of the battle between com mod-sense Labour and suicidal Communism.’ In New Zealand Communism is only beginning to make itself, felt. Under these c’rcumstances'. the. 'immerliatc work in the Empire cause is to fig In the widespread Russian-originated epidemic threatening the British Commonwealth and. that danger over. we shall have time to sing the glories .of Britannia's realms. I am, etc-.. ” MO?( OWPHOBIA.”