IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
Sir,—l attended with much interest the debat? on our naval policy at tho Victoria College. It tor-ms to me that no more serious menace to the peace and' safely of the Dominion and of the Umpire is possible than tho attitude of mind voiced by the Inrger numbar of speakers on that occasion. If v.'e arm ourselves our friends and allies, yre court disaster—v:hat nation will any longer placc the- .slightest confidence in British integrity or liMour? And ii' we make ourselves universally-distrusted, 01 what uso will be even the "two keels, to one" of the Xavy League? At the present^time the commercial intcrrtopemlenco of all nations is so great that in the event of war tho oowiuercr may sutler as greatly
eve I at Ihe conquered. It is (hcreforo to the interest «i all to maintain peace, but until wo become so lost to all higher ideals as to care for nothing save our own interest, resentment ami humiliation will mingle ill the minds of ninny who have to listen while in the name of our Kmpirc tin- foreigner, be lie German, Japanese, 'American, or whichever of tho other Powers has b:en annexed by tl'.B scaremonger of (lie moment is treated as an enemy nnd held up to be feared, disliked, anil placed, if passible, in the position of the greatest disadvantage. It is this distrust and nervousness which lays the almost unsupportable burden of alii aments on European peoples, and which is now in a fair way to bo the curse of Asia aeul Australasia.—l. am. etc.. 31. 10. riJMPHREY.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1773, 11 June 1913, Page 3
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264IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1773, 11 June 1913, Page 3
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