OUT OF SHADOW INTO THE LIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17854, 24 May 1926, Page 9

OUT OF SHADOW INTO THE LIGHT.

BALDWIN WRITES EMPIRE DAY MESSAGE. By Tclegiraph.—Press Assn.—‘Copyright. “ Times ” Service. (Received Mav 24. 9.20 a.m.) LONDON. May 23 The Empire Day nunjber of “The Times ” devotes graphic illustrated pages to the progress of the dominionsAdmirable articles deal with the people of the Empire, trade under the flag, finance, transport, defence, produce, agriculture, aviation and British films, which it is s-uggested should be discussed at the Imperial Conference. The Prime Ministers of the Empire sent anniversary messages.

Mr Baldwin points out that “ we, the Mother Country, have emerged from the shadow of a national crisis, and have come back into the light, because the people of the nation united to resist the forces which had set themselves up to destroy the sacred edifice of the Constitution. Our people not merely fought the cause of Britain: they fought for the whole Empire also, because once the heart had become rotten and corrupt the V’hole being must inevitably have crumbled. Just as the people of the Mother Country stood united in the face of danger, so would the nations of the Empire stand together in the face of a common enemy, whether from without or without the gates.” Mr Coates’s message pledges New Zealand’s fixed resolution to assist Em-pire-building by inviting her kinsmen from the Motherland to share in the w'ork of making New Zealand the Britain of the southern seas. “ The influences working to destroy the unity of the Empire must be exposed and combated,” he says. “We must give thought to practical measures tending to strengthen the union.” President Cosgrave urges a better understanding with the Free State and other portions of the Empire.