AT THE DAWN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 152, 19 February 1932, Page 5

AT THE DAWN

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[mpirh recovery JR. CHURCHILL REVIEWS GENERAL CONDITIONS IN INTERVIEW jffi OTTAWA CONFERENCE

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WASHINGTON, Thursday. "I do not think this is sunset r the British Empire; it is y/n," Mr. Winston Churchill to-day in concluding an in[■view with Canadian corresponnts. yir. Churchill described the ythcoming Economic Confer:ce as "a great chance — far the st the Empire ever had, and thrown away, practically the ly one." i asked: "With really goodwill should we not be hopeful of subial results? It obviously was the rtant thing to put a ring fenee ] the Empire, even if not a very one, to mahe the Empire eeocally self-conscious." e British qnota on wheat he asd would be just as effeetive as liieved by duty. The question 1 be what reciproeal privileges i be given British manufacturferi'ing to gold, he said Britain, reatest trading nation, had operf or years on a small gold basis. iever dreamed of accumulating although nothing would have easier. Now, when nations aclated gold they were held np as thrii'ty. The present situation jmpared to a number of backion games, in which two players the dice. Show No Weakness ferring to Socialism and Com3m, lie said the thing to do was ow iki weakness. He added: "I about Russia that all the nations ti denl with her together; otherRussia mig'ht destroy one marfter another by the product of amounts" to slavery. I have no ; they can make anything. There [1 be an international conferimmediately. i India," said Mr. Churchill, s were much better. The Gov:nt is doing now what I always — namely, upholding law and , putting down the restraint of J) art from the fighting among medans and Hindus he did not there were so many killed in since Gandhi had been put in as in New York and Chicago. to the Far East, Mr. Churchill ]it it would be difficult for the esto stop operations before obg a decisive victory. If the siti were left as it is there would recurrence of C-hinese nationaldirected against all foreign ■?. He thought the question he cleared up.