DESIRES FOR PEACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 877, 22 January 1930, Page 9

DESIRES FOR PEACE

BALDWIN SPEAKS ON IMPERIALISM UNITY OF NATIONS NEEDED British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. The ex-Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, was today installed as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. In the course of his speech he said it might well be that in the future—near or distant—that changes which had taken place within the British Empire overseas would affect the -world. The Dominions were in every respect equal partners with the Mother Country, linked by the Crown and not by Parliament. British India was making her first steps on the road which in the fullness of time was to lead her to self-government. They found themselves today In a world where most of the civilised nations ardently desired peace. They had endeavoured, not xvithout success, to bind the nations into a league. In that league wore included all the component parts of the British Empire, and that Empire represented a league of nations of their own which kept the peace over a quarter of the globe itself and among a quarter of its inhabitants. “On us,” declared Mr. Baldwin, “lies a responsibility greater than has been laid oil any other country, Tor we have not only to learn to govern ourselves but to show to many races alien from us in language, _custom and tradition. how to apply our methods of self-government to their own peoples.”