EMPIRE IDEALS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 7

EMPIRE IDEALS

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An Example Set To The World MR BALDWIN 'S SPEECH

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(Reeeived 19, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, April. 17. In an address on the responsibilities of the Empire, .th© Prime Minister, the RL Hon. Stanley Baldwin, said that despite the difficultxes and dangers with which the world was beset he believed it would in "ihe end find peace and prosperity, but thie journey would be long and hard and for it there was need of a common efforb, of resolution, of endurance and, abo.ve all, of leadership. No group of countries. was so well qualified to. provide leadership as those of the British Commonwealth, not ber' cause the British were necessarily better than cther people but because oi, their experienee. "We have demonstrated in actuaj: practiq© that dif&culties can be resolved by discussion as they cannot by force," .said Mr Baldwin. It had been shown that tolerance cr eated confidence and confidence harmony. The Commonwealth was founded on the conception that war between its component parts was unthinkable and impossible. Might not that conception be serviceable on. a still wider scale. Mr Baldwin concluded: "British peoples have always set. before them .the ideal of freedom, and more than ever to-day it is their duty to mairxtain and justify that ideal."