BRITISH ISRAEL VIEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1941, Page 6

BRITISH ISRAEL VIEWS

ADDRESS BY MISS DONALDSON. PROBLEMS OF WAR & PEACE. All available scats were filled at an address last night by Miss E. M. Donaldson, of Wellington, at the Country Women’s Club rooms. The lecture was given under the auspices of the Masterton branch of the British Israel World Federation. About 100 were present. Miss Donaldson spoke of the present trend towards a merger of European States. Hitler’s "new order in Europe” was a demonstration of this. Britain and Anglo-Saxondom should not be deceived by fair words. Wc had our own merger. We should avoid entanglement and build only on the sure foundations of the British Commonwealth together with the United States and such other races of like origin who could subscribe to our ideals. She instanced Norway, Holland and Denmark as racially akin. Disappointment had usually followed entanglements on . the Continent of Europe. The day’s news was not good even of Turkey’s attitude. The British Commonwealth would endure and grow despite its enemies. It would pass through difficult times—it might suffer reverses—but it could not be overthrown. We had the best of all guarantees for that.

Miss Donaldson’then dealt with the course of events in the Middle East. She said it was foolish to dogmatise regarding details. The course of events was portrayed broadly as on a large canvas. Opinions might differ, but her own view was that the culminating struggle in Palestine was yet some little time off. There might even be a kind of “false peace" in the interim. If so. it was to be hoped that we would not be deceived into taking part in any new European scheme. She was particularly pleased to see that Lord Beaverbrook, who had recently been elevated to the high position of Minister of State, in which he had great controlling powers, was resolute against European entanglement and had stated that his life work was the promotion of solidarity among the nations of the British Commonwealth and the United States. Miss Donaldson was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for her address.