BRITAIN’S POLICY

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12616, 29 November 1926, Page 6

BRITAIN’S POLICY

DOMINIONS WILL BE HEARD ESPECIALLY ON MIGRATION PROBLEM FRENCHMAN’S COMMENT By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS. November 26. The unobstrusive manner in which the changes in the relations between the Dominions and Great Britain were announced has made Continental commentators slow to realise the importance of the alterations in Great Britain’s foreign policy. M. Jules Sauerwein, writing in tho “Matin,” says: “Suppose that under pressure oi’ population it becomes necessary to examine the question of what territories are available for Germany, Italy, or any other country with an expanding population, such a question can no longer be referred to Great Britain, but must he referred to the Dominions also. “DIFFICULT TO PERSUADE” “The colonials throughout the world are difficult people to persuade. They make a gi-eat fuss over a slice of territory at, the Antipodes, yet some day it may be necessary to share up the territories of the globe on a fairer basis as the only way of preventing sanguinary conflicts. Britain might be i‘eady to make concessions, but the South African, Australian, and New Zealand parliaments might arise as 011 c man against the proposal.” INDIA HUMILIATED? M. Sauerwein adds: “While all Asia is in a ferment, the Imperial Conference makes a decision which is humiliating for Inda. Whereas New Zealand can conclude treaties. India continues in a state of impotence and vassalage. Certain British Dominions already treat India offensively, yet this is a land where the microbe of Bolshevism will readily grow.” BRITISH LEAGUE AND GENEVA “Pertinax,” writing in the “Echo de Paris,” applies tho description “Fascite” to the British Empire, using the term in tho derivative sense as of a composite bundle. The needs of common defence, he says, bind the Empire in a fasces. The Imperial Conference showed that the British league in some respects is keeping aloof of tho Geneva league and is determined to maintain its integrity.