EMPIRE BUILDING

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20731, 15 February 1939, Page 7

EMPIRE BUILDING

BRITAIN’S GREAT ACHIEVEMENT PRAISE BY NAZI ORGAN CREATED BY CULTURED PEOPLE (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 14 Britain's achievement in Empire building is praised by the Schwarze Korps, organ of the Nazi Black Guards, which calls it “a work of peace.” The article begins by explaining the necessity of viewing both the constructive achievements and the weaknesses of others. It proceeds:— “Not only the creation of such a far-flung Empire, not only the historic achievement embodied in the successful completion of so great an enterprise, calls forth our respect; hut also that indefinable something that lifts this work of human hands beyond the mere political sphere. “Some conquerors have knit together similar expanses, but only a very small part of the British Empire has been conquered by force. It is a work of peace. That is the secret of its strength.” Comparing the British with the Roman Empire, the journal concludes that while Rome concentrated on creating civil codes, Britain from the beginning was a Nordic nation, creating civilisation. Enterprise and Work It adds: “A cultured people, not a military State, created the British Empire. One must see the British Columbian forests, the South African gold districts and the Ganges River, in order to understand Great Britain's accomplishments for mankind. • If North America, Australia, New Zealand and Soutii Africa are to-day places where (he white race live comfortably. Europe owes ibis principally to the audacious spirit of enterprise and tenacious work of the English.”