CANADIAN VIEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 12, 7 October 1937, Page 4

CANADIAN VIEWS.

Stressing the necessity to "foster and to further to the utmost every agency of international understanding, friendship and goodwill," Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, addressed the people of the Dominion in a coast-to-coast radio broadoast on the results of the Imperial Conference. "In the rebuilding of international friendship there can be no more hopeful sign," he said, "than the recognition now generally accorded that the policies of extreme nationalism, which have raised so many barriers to the free intercourse of nations, have outlived their day. In these times, as never before in the affairs of men and nations, it is necessary for those who are charged with the responsibility of government, and who have to do with the formation of public opinion, to. weigh carefully the words they use, to restrain to the utmost whatever in thought or feeling. tends to rouse passion, or to intensif y prejudice." The outstanding feature of the disouSsions on trade was, in Mr. King's own words : " The emphatic desire, expressed by the representatives of every part of the British Commonwealth represented at the conference, that all practicable steps should be taken to seciire the stimulation of international trade. In order to assist in increasing the stability of economic and financial conditions necessary to the prosperity of individual countries and to world peace, the Governments at the conference declared themselves ready to co-operate with other nations in examining current difflculties, including trade barriers and other obstacles to the increase of international trade."