AFTER THE WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 4

AFTER THE WAR

PROGRESS WITHIN EMPIRE NEED OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION. MYTH OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY GONE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) RUGBY, January 10.

Dealing with post-war developments within the British Empire, _ in the speech reported in an earlier cablegram, the Home Secretary (Mr Heroert Morrison) said there must go with any policy of economic development a policy'of labour advancement and measures to .enable undeveloped partially developed communities to get practical training in political arts and governmental capacity. It would be dangerous nonsense to talk about grants of full self-government to many dependent territories for some time to come—it would be like giving a child of ten a latchkey, bank account and shotgun—but we could combine forward policies of education with opportunities for native peoples to take a developing part in forms of self-gov-ernment appropriate to their circumstances “I hope that after the war we shall be able to find it possible to achieve, without prejudice to our own primary obligation for the wellbeing and progress of British territories, some wider pooling of tasks and responsibilities with others,” said Mr Morrison. ‘‘After the war, the whole British Commonwealth and not the colonies alone, will need and want to adopt, as a condition of its own survival, enlightened policies of international co-operation. The myth of a self-sufficient Empire has gone the way of other historical illusions, and I hope and believe British common sense has said goodbye to it for ever. After the war no power, however great, will be able singlehanded to secure its own -security. Only in a wider system of political security will the Commonwealth find its own salvation.”