BRITAIN LUKEWARM
BRIAND’S PLAN LEAVES DOMINIONS OUT EMPIRE INTERESTS FIRST United P.A. —By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. "The Times,” in an editorial, says: “Britain may feel unable actually to enter M. Briand’s suggested scheme for a United States of Europe because her overseas Dominions are excluded from it, and also because it is the centre of a world-wide Empire, whose economic development and political stability must be the first consideration of her statesmen. “Moreover, at a time when the loosening of the legal and formal bonds between the self-governing portions of the Empire are completed, her statesmen’s first task must he to secure the constant collaboration necessary for the Empire’s continuance of prosperity, while Empire opinion, as shown at the Naval Conference, opposes European entanglements. “Nevertheless, Britain undoubtedly would support an endeavour to lower the political and economic barriers separating the European nations.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 976, 20 May 1930, Page 9
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145BRITAIN LUKEWARM Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 976, 20 May 1930, Page 9
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