UNITY OF EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 11, 8 October 1943, Page 6

UNITY OF EMPIRE

Accounts To Settle With Japan ALLIED CO-OPERATION (British Official Wireless.) : Received October 7, 8.10 p.m.) RUGBY, October 6. Speaking to the Anglo-American Press Association in London, the Home Secretary, Mr. Herbert Morrison, answered Colonel Knox’s appeal for more knowledge by both countries of each other’s affairs. Me pointed out. that in the rapidly-developing modem world most enlightened British people saw the need of holding fast to every fragment Of co-operation and unity in rhe world and to “build it up, give it fuller meaning and fit it into a wider pattern.” , ... Mr. Morrison reaffirmed the weighty reasons of British policy which lay behind the pledge given on behalf ot the people of Britain to carry on with all their forces till Japan was finally c.eteated. To the two self-governing Dominions in the Pacific the- destruction of Japan was a matter of life and death, he said, and their struggle for existence and freedom was a matter of the greatest moment to the ordinary people of Britain who shared with them the bloodstained memories of four years of brotherhood in arms in four continents. Deeds in North Africa.

It was a plain fact that the deeds of the Australian and New. Zealand troops in North Africa were part of the heritage not merely of their own countries but of Britain. Nor was the British war effort in the eastern theatre something belonging to the future. In the whole vast theatre from India to New Zealand, the Empire’s contribution in manpower was comparable to that of the United States. The peoples of the Commonwealth had accounts to settle regarding Burma. Malaya. Hong Kong, and Tientsin. M e regard it as a duty to ourselves as well as to the people who were in our care to set the matter fully to rights the moment we can,” Mr. Morrison added. It was also a matter of profound concern to Britain as to her allies that the end of the war should see the establishment of a Chinese nation free to work out in peace its tremendous destiny. Mr. Morrison said that by far the greatest part of the equipment, ol the Empire’s fighting force came from the Empire itself. We owed the United States a debt of gratitude for vitally important help in particular classes of weapons. But, on the other hand, the Empire, besides equipping her own forces, had sent vast supplies to Russia, hud largely equipped the forces, of het European allies and had made an. important contribution to the United States' own war effort.

EMIGRATION URGED Duty To Develop Colonies

(Received October 7. 8.45 P,m.) LONDON, October 7. In a leading article on the subject of Britain’s duty to develop the colonies, the “Daily Mail” says: “The duty does not end there. It must also embrace the Dominions. The war has shown that these rich lands are a standing temptation to aggressor nations. If we wish to keep them within the Commonwealth, we must maintain closer contacts. If we are not to lose them, we must strengthen, develop and populate them —make them greater nations than they are already. “One of Britain’s first concerns after ■1 he war should be a scheme of emigration. Wc must, if necessary, spend money on a large scale to help settle and develop the Dominions. They are today industrial besides agricultural nations. We should not be frightened of that.”