BRITISH EMPIRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3

BRITISH EMPIRE

MODEL FOR THE WORLD

IN PEACEFUL DEVELOPMENT & PROGRESS.

GREAT CONTRIBUTION OFFERED TO MANKIND.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, January 10.

It was a fundamental point that the record of the British people in this war showed that they still possessed in full measure those qualities of tough, practical idealism which had been the basis of their contribution to human progress, said the Home Secretary (Mr Herbert Morrison), in a speech today. “I want the British Commonwealth to last, not just because it is British, but because it is good and will be better yet,” Mr Morrison said. “Without it the world would lose a great factor of stability and progress just when those things will be most needed. That part of the Empire composed of the self-governing Dominions, a free association of democratic communities, is a model for a world long afflicted by problems arising from the unequal development of different lands and peoples.” Mr Morrison said it would be a most pernicious fallacy to thank that any plans and policies we adopted at> home could secure the prosperity of our people unless means had been found to achieve the two great aims which must govern and dominate world policy after the war —universal security and universal prosperity. World-wide peace and nrosperity were elementary British interests. We had great contributions of experience, wisdom, of moral and political judgment as self-governing peoples, to make towards these ends.