ANGLO-SAXON UNITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1160, 18 October 1913, Page 4

ANGLO-SAXON UNITY.

In the course of an at tide on “The Welding of the Empire,’’ in the Fortnightly Review for September, Sir Gilbeit Parker, M.P., says:—“The first administrative federation or co-operation will certainly lake place in the field of defence, and —of a consequence—foreign affairs, and from it will be evolved ways and means to machinery lor a large executive co-operation. That accomplished, and the British Empire rendered a fact and not merely a name, by an elastic, loosely jointed, reciprocating union, with the principle of trade preference in operation everywhere, that other larger union will be in sight—and I think I may live to see it—the co operative alliance of the British Empire and the United States together with all English speaking peoples. It is a dream, but dreams come true, as the history of the British Empire has shown, as the history of the United Stales has shown since the day when there were three nations with three Governments operating in the territory now controlled from Washington, to which was opposed an Imperial policy that at length successfully excluded Spain and France from the territory now represented by the forty-nine Stales, and the problem of half a continent was solved. The welding of the British Empire will lead to the welding together of all Britishspeaking peoples; and that will be a good day for civilisation and for the world's peace.”