FUTURE OF BRITAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 18, 22 January 1935, Page 12

FUTURE OF BRITAIN

DEAN INGE’S PROPHECY. A RELATIVE DECLINE. LONDON, Jan. 3. Dean Inge, in a revised edition of his book, “England,” asserts that the American Government seriously contemplated anti-British action in the early stages of the war, and says: “Whatever sentiment entered into the calculations favoured France, and not England. “If a European coalition attacks Britain in the future, America will probably leave us to our fate unless we are invaded by a black army.” In another place, he says: “The next 50 years will bo most critical for Britain. which, as one of the Great Powers, is bound to decline at least relatively, as the future for effectiveness of wealth belongs to the large countries not yet full of people and with their resources not completely tapped. The I prospect is favourable to the British language,-. not unfavourable to the British race, but unfavourable to the mother country, apa*. from the 'daughter States, which may not supjport us as heartily as in 1914. I “I favour State-directed colonisation |as a palliative for reduction of population amt as a. cure for the position in I which Britain is unable to find food and work for her population.” He adds: “Licentiousness is justified in action, and is not reprobated in society. Looseness of conduct is spread;ng downwards to classes where previously it was almost Unknown, and birth-control knowledge is unfortunately affecting the Morality of unmarried persons. Nevertheless, the national character has not deteriorated, except, perhaps, in the attitude towards indus fry ami hard work.