EMPIRE OUTLOOK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 6

EMPIRE OUTLOOK

MR CHAMBERLAIN’S HOPEFUL SURVEY

GAINS OF THE PAST YEAR. NO CONCESSIONS TO BE MADE TO FORCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, December 29. Mr Chamberlain, in a New Year message to Conservatives throughout Britain and the Empire, rejects the contention that Britain’s sole task is to prepare for war in the belief that war is inevitable. He adds that last year’s gains far outweighed its trials and anxieties and left no cause for pessimism. Rearmament plans have so progressed, though much remained to be done, that we could discharge our obligations to our allies, the Empire and ourselves. Our armed strength enabled us to say we would meet all peoples in a spirit of reasonableness, but not conceding to force, while social services would be maintained unimpaired.

CALL FOR ACTION

IN EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT POLICY IMMEDIATE ADJUSTMENT . NEEDED. MUTUALLY ADVANTAGEOUS ENTERPRISE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, December 29. The British Empire Union has written to Mr Chamberlain submitting that present world tendencies necessitate an immediate adjustment of Empire problems, including the development of natural resources and the readjustment of population between England and the Dominions and colonies, adding that while Britain must have an outlet for her surplus population, the Dominions must increase theirs in order to accumulate man-power and develop their natural resources. The necessary finance should be obtained from the Empire as a whole, enabling unemployed British youth to become useful citizens overseas, when the Dominions would equally benefit by the absorption of their own unemployed, by useful additions of British stock and by resultant increased prosperity. Peace depended upon a united Empire, with closer co-operation between its component parts. Therefore the English and Dominion Governments should formulate a mutually, advantageous constructive scheme.