FOREIGN POLICY
NEW ZEALAND’S NEED
MR. 0. E. BURTON EXPLAINS
“One thing I have noticed during 'the General Election campaign is that hardly a single speaker in any part o£ New Zealand has endeavoured to put forth a constructive foreign policy,” observed Mr. O. E. Burton, speaking in the Congregational Hall, Mount Eden, last evening. New Zealand was a very small coun" try indeed, but it was rapidly coming right into the centre of the world. There was a time, of course, when New Zealand was a country far away from the centre of the vorld, but in future the world was going to revolve more and more round those countries which touched on the Pacific. Japan had a population of 80,000,000 people in a country smaller than New Zealand. India had 350,000,000 people in a country congested to the very utmost. A tremendous population was developing in the United States and South America, and the very life of the Dominion depended on the peaceful and harmonious relations which were established. “Yet we find scarcely a single man bringing before the people a constructive foreign policy,” said Mr. Burton. “In my opinion, there is nothing more important than that.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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199FOREIGN POLICY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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