EMPIRE & FOREIGN TIES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 4

EMPIRE & FOREIGN TIES.

ASSOCIATION with Canada as that Dominion takes progres-

sively a greater and more influential part in the life of the Empire is less likely to create new problems for the United States than tn point the way to a solution of the problem of effective'co-operation between the democracies in world policy. There are some Americans who believe that Canada will be bound in. time to break away from the British Empire and to link on with the United Stales. In spite of some obvious things to be adduced in support of that belief, good grounds appear for considering that it is on the whole narrow and short-sighted.

One great fact to be grasped is that as a Dominion of the Empire, Canada enjoys a measure of freedom which could not well be surpassed. Even at this time, when Canada, in common with her Empire partners, is taking her full share in the joint war effort, it is established as clearly as evpr that for her, as for her sister Dominions, Empire partnership is a matter less ol obligations than of opportunity and privilege. As memberSlates of the Brilish Empire, Ihe Dominions have an opportunity they could not otherwise command of defending themselves. Until recently the theory was current that Canada occupied a different and a peculiar position—that it was open to her, remaining inactive. Io enjoy untroubled safely and security under the protection of the United States. 'Today that, theory has gone by the board. Il is now recognised almost universally that if Britain were overt brown, the United States in no long time would find itself fighting for its own life and freedom.