IF WAR COMES
POLITICIANS TO BLAME. AUSTRALIA AND CANADA. CLOSER FRIENDSHIP ’URGED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. VICTORIA, July 18. “ If wap comes It will have been caused by politicians, not by the people,” remarked the Prime Mlnlster of Australia, Mr J. A. Lyons, before he loft Victoria for San Francisco. “ I am sure war thoughts do not spring from the hearts of the people of any country. We should take all Government heads once a year to the battlefields of France and let them meditate.”
Air Lyons urged a closer friendship and a more equitable scale of trade relations between Canada and Australia, and said he believed that better Pacific relations would result in more stable world confidence.
At a luncheon of the Rotary Club Air Lyons said it was most important to Increase Australia’s trade balance with Canada, lie did not wish to decrease Canada’s trade, but to bring about a more even balance. He would even welcome an increase of Canadian exports provided that Australia’s leeway was made up.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19633, 20 July 1935, Page 7
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