TO-MORROW IN THE EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 44, 15 November 1919, Page 7

TO-MORROW IN THE EMPIRE

A GREAT FUTURE DEPICTED THE COLOUR PROBLEM Bt IVdsgraph-Preis i Jiwolatloß-Ooprriglii (ficu. November H, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 12. Colonel Ainery (Colonial Ofiico), interviewed by tho "Horning J'osl," enio' as Iho ninolaouth was the century of iho United States, so the twentieth would bo tlio century of 11.0 Jiritislv Empire. 11 would end with Iho British Einpiro hav:inir two hundred million whito citizens | enjoying a. far higher level of prosperity lhan did tho United States 10-dny. Tlio first essential was the development; of .Imperial transport by Empire-wide lailw;avs. Thcv-o weio cseenlial us it complement to t he policy of Imperial preference. It was tlio business of Iho whalo' Lmniro to assist in developing Iho (.rown colonies mm' protectorates. Equal participation, in Iho 'governance of the less advanced territories was of more'; practical import,nice I linn the recognition of the dominions' cqualit-v .of status in international aft'airs. ■ As half Iho' population of Asia was within tho iiriiish Empire there w«is no possiblo men-' aco a!rain::t tho interests, of Australia and Canada, sinco half of 800,000.000 Asiatics wore partners in the Empire with tho dominions. "Our Ironical Empire," said Colonel Amcrv. '"belongs ■to the dominions as woll us to Britain. Australia should look to tropical Africa as well as to l.ho Pacific Islands. We must learn- lo doonntralisb the conception of Empire. 'J'lio idea of the Umpire as a solar system with Eneland as tlio sun and the colonies as satellites is out of ante.' Alongside llir development of transport should go tho development of overseas settlement. Emigration is an ev.il word. A man cannot emirate to Australia. The word should |)o jeserved for foreign countries. The leatruo of Nations mandate will not mterfero with British Imperial policy. Tlio mandate is not likely to impose miy conditions which we would not impose ourselves."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.