BRITAIN'S DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1919, Page 5

BRITAIN'S DAY.

EXPANSION OF THE EMPIREvNO ASIATIC MENACE. THBvDEVELOPMENT OF SETTLE. " MENT. . By Telegraph.—Piess Assn.—Copyright, Received Nov. 14, 5.6 p.m. London, Nov. 12. Mr. L. C. Amery (Under-Secretary for the Colonies), interviewed by the Morning Post, said: "As the nineteenth was the century of the United States, so the twentieth would be the century of the British Empire. It would end with the British Empire having two hundred million white citizens enjoying a far higher level of prosperity than the United States. I "To-day the first essential is the development of Imperial transport by Em-pire-wide railways. These were essential as a complement to the policy of Imperial preference. It was the business of the whole Empire to assist in developing the Crown Colonies and Protectorates. Equal participation in the governance of less advanced territories is of more practical importance than the recognition of the Dominions' equality status in international affairs, as half the population of Asia is within the British Empire. '•There is no possible menace against the interests of Australia and Canada, since half of the 800,000 Asiatics were partners in the Empire with the Dominions, and the tropical empire ' belongs to the Dominions a? well as to Britain. Australia should look to tropical Africa as awell as the Pacific Islands. "We must learn to decentralise our eonception of the Empire. The idea of the Empire as a solar system with England as the sun and the Colonies as satellites is out of date. Alongside the development of transport should go the development of overseas settlement. Emigration is an evil word. A man cannot emigrate to Australia. The word should he reserved for foreign countries. "The League of Nations mandate will not interfere with the British Imperial policy. The mandate is not likely to impose any conditions which we would not impose ourselves."—Aub.-N.Z. Cable Assn.