EMPIRE’S GREAT DESTINY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3419, 25 February 1920, Page 5

EMPIRE’S GREAT DESTINY .

MR. MASSEY ’s VIEWS. E XVELLINGTON, February 23 | “Most of us are disappointed at the: fact that the peace treaty, and especially the part of it referring to the League of Nations, has become a party question in America,’ ’said the Prime Minister at the annual conference‘ of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association. “I am sorry at what has happened. I had hoped very great things from the League of Nations, and I think that much good may be done yet, but the cablegrams published recently indicate that there is very little pl'.OS-. pect of the peace treaty being ratified in the form in which it was agreed to by Britain and’ her allies on the one hand and the Germans on the other hand.

“What may happenain the future nobody can tell. I would just like, to say this—although the League of Nations as planned in "the peace treaty may not he as “successful as- most of us wish, I hope that an effort will ‘be spared to strengthen the other League of Nations, the league of nations of the British Empire. We must recognisenise that each of the- British nations is growing steadily in population and influence, and I believe that the day will come when humanity will look to the league of British nations to keep the peace of the World. The league planned at the Peace Conference may not succeed, but the league of which I have spoken will succeed. Who can say what the British nations will be in population by the end of this century?”