A GREAT SERVICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 129, 22 August 1927, Page 13

A GREAT SERVICE

MR. BALDWIN PRAISED VISIT TO CANADA 3/ Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 11.32 a.m. RUGBY, Sunday. Both British and Canadian press comments attach high importance to the successful visit which the British Prime Minister has just concluded in Canada. The ‘‘Sunday Observe#” declares that it is very difficult to praise too highly the tone of the Prime Minister’s speeches. and in particular thinks that his tribue to the selfrespect, balance and endurance of the British workers came with grace and truth. The “Observer” adds: “Political differences need not and will not diminish by a particle the appreciation of excellent service to the Empire. The Empire ideal is as much above party as the Crown, and the Prime Minister himself in the hottest of political battle has always had a peculiar hold upon the liking and respect of his opponents. Canada will have given him some tonic experiences, and he will have mental if not physical compensation for his sacrifice of leisure. There is no man who would breathe the free air of the Dominion more easily and more naturally.” The “Montreal Gazette” says: “Mr. Baldwin has performed an invaluable service in combating the idea that Great Britain was industrially decadent and her working classes bent upon Red revolution, and he left a picture which will remain, of the Mother Country with her soul and spirit unchanged, battling successfully to overcome the economic difficulties and dislocations caused by the war. For himself he has secured a new and profitable acquaintance with Canadian problems and the Canadian point of view, and he has developed a wholesome intimacy with Canadian public men.”—-A. and N.Z. LESSON FROM DOMINIONS '‘THE DRASTIC TOUCH” By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. The “Sunday Observer” editorially says that the sincerest welcome on tehalf of all parties awaits Mr. Baldwin on returning from Canada after the first visit to the Dominions that any Prime Minister has made while, in office. The lJaper hopes that others will follow this precedent, and emphasises the value of visits 1,-f Royalty of the past, and of Mr. Amery’s present tour of the Empire; adding: “Mr. Baldwin, besides taking a British message to Canada, went to listen and learn. “British statesmen now do not travel merely to represent Britain, but to learn many things which the Dominions can teach. “We might with advantage borrow something of the Dominions’ drastic touch in dealing with problems, whether they be of coal or agriculture, of slums or of other reforms and developments. The new spirit in government evidenced in the Dominions would be most valuable.” —A. and N.Z.