UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.
BRITAIN’S POSITION. OVERSEAS DOOVfINIONS EXCLUDED. NEEDS OF THE EMPIRE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright, (Received May 20, 9.35 a.-m.) LONDON, May 19. The Times, in a leader, says that Britain may feel unable actually to enter M. (Briand’s suggested United States of Europe, because the overseas Dominions are exoluded from it, also because she is the centre of a world-wide Empire, whose economic development and political stability must be the first consideration of her statesmen. Moreover, at a time when a of the legal and formal bonds between the self-governing portions of the Empire are completed the statesmen’s first task -must be ta secure the constant collaboration necessary for the Empire’s continuance of prosperity, while Empire opinion, as showm at the Naval Conference, opposes European entanglements. Nevertheless, Britain undoubtedly would support the endeavour to lower the political and economic barrier* separating, the European nations.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18024, 20 May 1930, Page 7
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