DOMINION’S FREEDOM

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1928, Page 4

DOMINION’S FREEDOM

CANADA’S NEW INITIATIVE. [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). MONTREAL. November 14. “Willingness to share responsibilities which in the earlier stages of imperial development Britain bore alone is an obliagtion which Canada and other Dominions should he ready to meet for their development in the British Commonwealth of Nations/’ is a message Sir Austen Chamberlain left with the people of Canada to-day. “There is room in our Commonwealth A for the fullest development of Canadian nationality. We welcome your co-operation in all fields, but now that you claim—and rightly so—a place in the field of foreign affairs, you must study them. You must take an interest which will make your papers afford vou all tbe information necessary to enable you to form your judgment, and you must lie willing to share responsibilities which in the earlier stages of imperial development we had to hear alone. We shall welcome your assistance and your advice, even your criticism. but let it not he a criticism only after the event, but a real partnership in forming decisions,” he said.