NEED FOR THE MOVEMENT.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 58, 24 March 1937, Page 4

NEED FOR THE MOVEMENT.

Xn the course of his articie to which reference is made above Sir Henry Braddon aays: "A few years back^ Communism was our menace. Now Fascist dictatorships constitute a similar danger to the freedom we enjoy— -of speeeh, Press, eonscience and commercial uetivity. We can hardly imagine ourselves without the^e individual rights; yet the danger undoubtedly is there. In the Herald on February 15 last, the British Seeretary for War was reported to have said: "The most optimistio people must reeognise that there is every sign of an a,p- » proaching catastrophe. And almost as hannful as war itself is the cQugtaut fear of war, Therefore a movement was initiated in Sydney for 'British- American Co-operation '—-explicitly for the maintenanee of world peace. "The movement happens to have originated here, but the aim, of course, is to make it Empire wid§ and to stimulate a similar activity in the United States of America. We, can* only hope to stir public opinien in Australia, but it must follow for Governments te give effeet to that pubHe opinion when it is mobilised, We have already the expressed approval, as individuals, of the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, the State Premier, Mr Stevens, and others. It is not, I think any breach of confidence to add that Mr R. B. Rennett, reeent Prime Minister of Canada, also expressed eordial approval when ha visited Sydney a few weeks ago.