WORLD CHANGES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1930, Page 5

WORLD CHANGES

MR BALDWIN’S SPEECH. EMPIRE RESPONSIBILITIES. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, Jan. 20. Mr Stanley Baldwin, ex-Prime Minister, speaking at his installation as Lord Rector of Glasgow University, said that it might well be that in the future, near or distant, changes that had taken place within the British Empire overseas would affect the world. The dominions were in every respect equal partners with the Mother Country, linked by the Crown, and not by Parliament. British' India was making her first steps on the road which in the fullness of time was to lead her to self-government. “We find ourselves to-day, ’ Mr Baldwin said, “in. a world /here most of the civilised nations ardently desire peace. They had endea'-'>iu. eel, not without success, to find the nations into a league. In ’hat league were included all tho component parts of the British Empire, and that Empire represented a league of nations of their own, which kept the peace over a quarter of the globe itself, and amongst ii quiariter of its inhabitants.

“On us,” declared Mr Baldwin, “lies a responsibility greater than has been laid on any other country, for we have not only to learn to govern ourselves, but to show many races alien from us in language, custom and tradition, how ,to apply our methods of self-government to their o«n peoples.”