KNOWLEDGE OF EMPIRE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 9

KNOWLEDGE OF EMPIRE.

NEW BRITISH WEEKLY. (iT CABLS-PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPIBIGHT.) (AVSTRALUH AKD »•=• ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, December 31. The first number has been issued of a new publication, the "London Weekly, Home and Overseas." The appearance and make-up are similar to those of the "Nation" and the "Saturday Review." The editor, Dr. Haden Guest, a Labour member of the House of Commons, in an introductory article, says: "We in Britain know far too little of life in the Dominions and the colonies, and people in the Dominions know too little of our lives and special difficulties and problems. The 'London Weekly' hopes to repair these deficiencies. A great movement for Empire development is already under way. It must be a great popular movement or it will lose momentum. Given popular support, which only depends upon popular understanding, we shall be able to locate from the troubles and perplexities of the post-war years to a new era of prosperity. Vigour in Empire organisation can lift us oat of the ruts of social misery, unemployment, and low standards of life to a level of prosperity rivalling, perhaps exceeding, that prevailing in the United States." M Amery, in a foreword, says: "The Imperial Conference, by removing all ground for misunderstanding in tho mutual relations of the self-governing nations of the Empire, cleared the way for a constructive programme, the essentials of which can be summed up in the words, 'Security and development.' . "The discovery of a common economic policy is the greatest practical problem before us. It cannot be found in any abstract scheme of Free Trade or Protection. It must be based on a compromise varying with local conditions, but aiming at the greatest measure of internal Free Trade within the Empire and the maintenance of the standard of living of each community."