GENERAL SMUTS SEES HOPE FOR THE WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 3 January 1930, Page 10

GENERAL SMUTS SEES HOPE FOR THE WORLD.

IDEALS OF BRITISH EMPIRE ARE PRAISED. < United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received January 3, 1.45 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 2. Picturing the British Empire as a commonwealth in which smallci nationalities (such as the Dutch in South Africa and the French-Canadians in Canada) would have full sway toward the development of their cultures and national aspirations, _ General Smuts, addressing the Canadian Club on Thursday, contrasted the British system with the melting pot system of the United States, where' the ideal of Government institutions was to turn cut Americans on the same standards He also contrasted with the French idea of colonial development, where, as in Africa, the idea was to create French Moors, French Negroes and French Berbers. This development of free peoples, with a common link binding but not shackling them, meant that a fourth of the human race lived in harmony. He felt this example a sufficient reason to believe in the future of the League of Nations. If a fourth of the world’s peoples—different in culture, colour and religion, and inhabiting all continents of the world—could live without armies and navies prepared against each other, then surely there was hope for the other three-quarters. The British peoples should see that, in sentiment, loyalty and all other ties, the peoples of the Empire were more closely bound together.