NEED FOR CLOSER PARTNERSHIP.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER IN
SCOTLAND.
(fbou our own correspondent.)
LONtfON. May 23
Sir Thomas Mackenzie has been in Scotland, and whilo there he addressed the Edinburgh and Leith Chambers of Commerce and tho Merchants' Company, advocating a policy of closer partnership between Great Britain and her colonies.
Perhaps, said the High. Commissioner, the people in the Dominion lacked culture, but they had the imagination and the perspective, itnd saw how absolutely necessary it was tOvßecure as much territory as possible to exclude uudeiirable neighbours and to have the lands to develop. In addition to her anxiety to win the war, New Zealand was concerned in the exclusion of Germany from tho Pacific, and especially from Samoa. That trouble might have been saved if the Colonial Office had had the intelligence of a First. Standard schoolboy. Samoa was the Charing Cross of tho Pacific, and after tho completion of the Panama Canal it became the opening to the more largely populated Northern Hemisphere. Some form of partnership should be and the matter was urgent. Agencies of discontent and dissatisfaction existed in some of the Dominions with the "do nothing]' policy of the Mother Country. Resolutions had been passed in Australia condemning Imperial Federation; and men were agitating in New Zealand in an anti-British spirit. Surely the force of that opinion, and the fact that they now numbered a fourth of tho British race, was sufficient justification for a change of methods. Sir Thomas was sure that m this Empire there were men with the ability to devise a policy that would meet the exigencies of the situation, and the British race was never more virile than now. If the British Empire as a trading community was to hold its own, men with a special training in commerce should be selected for consular posts. Colonials were amused to note that in this country those who rose by trade despised trade afterwards,- but the successful trader was the man who should hold the position'of value in the community, and was of more value than a highlypolished individual who had never done anything useful in his life. "
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16260, 10 July 1918, Page 4
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