EMPIRE PROBLEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 263, 31 July 1920, Page 7

EMPIRE PROBLEMS

TO BE CONSIDERED AT PRESS CONFERENCE CONSOLIDATION OF LEAGUE OF, NATIONS . (By Telejraph-Press Association-OopyrieM (Ucc. July 30, 5.5 p.m. 1 ) Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 29. At the civic.luncheon to the delegates to tho Imperial Press Conference on Wednesday Jlr. Robert Donald, chairman of the Imperial Press Union, in his address .said the conferenco would advocate cheaper postal rates,' fuller interchango of news, and improved comimijiicatiou of all kinds, believing these to ho tUo.surfsl bonds of union of the Empire. The delegates wore detei'mined to -contribute their common stock ideas to a solution of the urgent problems of the Empire a lid give a load to the statesmen meeting- next year in London. Tho conference had a good opportunity to exercise a potent-influence on Lmpiro affairs at a time of ferment. Canada's shell contribution was the biggest thing in its way that any nation had doue iu the war. He wanted to know if Canada's comradeship in arms had cemented tho common brotherhood 'of Britain and the other Dominions and promoted a. stronger seuse for help they could not shirk. Though wrestling with the legacies of the war in Europe, Canada was concerned with whatever menaced British industrial life and financial stability; America was the one cause of delay in the progress of easing the situation in Europe. It had been said that the stupendous events were-too, big for men, but there was a little man in England who had not thought any task too big. ' The man who had saved France had retired. The. saviour of democracy had given up. the job. Jlr. Lloyd George was an -outstanding man, but he. was absorbed internationally, and could not attend' to domestic problems and start, a League of Nations crusade. The League, abandonee! by its parent, had been adopted by the Empire.- Canada was a fullgrown partner of the Empire arid of the J/eague - of Nations, flie consolidation of which the conference' hoped to promofe. The Empire was setting 'an example of nationhood. Canada wantMi the editors and statesmen to 6peak frankly. Jlillions of members of the dependent races under British rule were looking to their protectors and trying to build a larger League. The British family, by sticking together, could face the future with .brave hearts and every confidence.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.