MR BALFOURS SPEECH
PEACE OF THE WORLD.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighi
Received 12.5 a.m., Jan 14. London, Jan. 13.
Mr Balfour, continuing iris speech, claimed that tho Government’s treaties of arbitration had proved a great engine for preserving the peace of the world. He oulogised Lord Lausdowne’s settlement with France. If similar arrangements wore possiblo among other European nations the chances of two great Powers coming to blows would almost bo removed. Fiscally he had nothing to odd to or withdraw from his Edinburgh speech. Ho recommended his oountrymon to avail thomselves of every opportunity to produce closer union with the colonies. Ho' hoped colonial conferences would become ns essential a part of the working machinery oE the Empire as the House of Commons. Every effort would bo made by the Government in that direction to forward the movement. Whatever ho the issue, ho would rather fail with those holding a great ideal than succeed with tho purblind, narrow-minded, unimaginative, never gazing beyond tho parish, incapable of picturing tho future of the colonies when in plentitudo and strength they were bound to the Empire with organic ties.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1354, 14 January 1905, Page 2
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