GREAT BRITAIN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 30, 18 March 1942, Page 6

GREAT BRITAIN

LIBERTY AND COMMERCE '•J t was Burke who once said that the two main sources of power to Great Britain were liberty and commerce. It might have been said of my own country. When the war is over we wilt both have to face an internal and an external reconstruction in our two countries which must involve broad changes of policy. Among the questions that w T il] have to be dealt with arc those of exchange, of trade, and, with them, of employment and the standard of living. These arc things which should be studied and , understood now so that the mistakes following the last war can be avoided when this war is ended. Wc are coming to recognise more clearly than ever before that wc must clothe freedom with a jjositive significance. The economy of free peoples should be 'a conquest of nature, by co-opera-tive effort, in the service of man.' This calls for a political philosophy which not only includes individual and corporate relationships within the State but reaches beyond selfish nationalism to> a plan of political and economic, collaboration, in order that wc might join together to creatc a prosperous and peaceful world."—-Mr Winant, American Ambassador to Great Brtain.