NORTHCLIFFE’S VIEWS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 25 May 1922, Page 5

NORTHCLIFFE’S VIEWS.

POSITION OF AUSTRALASIA. LONDON, May 23. Lord Northcliffe, in a special article in the “Times,” Empire Supplement, on “Empty Australasia,” asks: “What is awaiting our Dominions in the Pacific where Australia and New Zealand stand as twin trustees of the Fmpire’s destiny? When the great Powers met at Washington, Australia was more vitally interested, and her voice heard with more respect. Her fate is more irrevocably bound in the issue than at Versailles or Paris. I know how far the efforts of Senator Pearce and Sir John Salmond went to help in the happy solution, which was found in the abrogation of the old alliance. The formation of the new Pacific pact brings Australia peace for the present, but responsibility for the future, because the two southern Dominions support our cornerstone in the four-power agreement.

BRITAIN AND DOMINIONS CO-OPERATION NECESSARY. The “Times,” in a leader, says:— The Empire is no longer a group of far-flung dependencies, but a chain of mighty nations, girdling the world. National Imperial greatness is far more likely to be achieved by securing the substance, viz., the unity of Britain and the Dominions, than by chasing the shhdow of European reconstruction, among nations that have yet to find reconstruction themselves. Cooperation among our own kith and kin is surely the key which will lead the. nation from the darkest maze, wherein it wanders to-day. The Empire Settlement Bill stands as the most notable landmark in our history. The benefits of inter-Tmperial migration are threefold in character: the Dominions’ gain development and resources for peopling spaces; Britain gains relief of her surplus population and assistance for unemployment, and the Empire gains gradual strengthening ties, which bind the component parts together by preserving the Empire's alliances and developing resources, and above pH, cultivation and understanding whereof is horn mutual confidence and affection. We shall keep it-—the Commonwealth that for long will stand four square to all the world ”