GROUNDS FOR HOPE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 7

GROUNDS FOR HOPE

Mr. MacDonald Broadcasts to Australia

REFERENCE TO JUBILEE

(British Official Wireless.)

Rugby, January 10.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, to-day broadcast greetings to the Commonwealth of Australia from tlie Cabinet Room of No. 10 Downing Street. Reports received from Melbourne after the broadcast said that the reception was perfect. Mr. MacDonald, in reference to tlie King's .Silver Jubilee, said: "His Majesty has borne the sceptre of sovereignty and maintained tlie unity of the Empire in times of war and peace, of prosperity and of stress. We shall look back in May on 25 years of as momentous and eventful history as has ever appeared in the long annals of the British Empire. During these years the world has been transformed. Its problems, its conditions have changed, its opportunities have changed. We are now living in a world which has an increasing need of the spirit of our Empire—championship of liberty, respect for individual, and pursuit of world peace.” The Prime Minister said that tlie idea of the British Commonwealth of Nations was the idea of the League of Nations and was tlie only wa" of salvation for the world and its civilisation. Tlie last quarter of a century had seen a transformation, but he added: “We now find ourselves providentially able to look forward with more grounds for hope.’*