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Professor Coatman, with his perience as the first occupant of the chair of Imperial Economic Relations esting thesis to prove that the development of the of the British Empire will be ful to establish the wider ce-oper: lon between the nations of the world. The ttle of the book Is an analogue of the old Magna Gracela, with all the philosophical and_moral British Empire Commonwealth or self-sufficiency of a nation, It cannot alter the basic fact" that 0 rational theory of the ultimate formal objective of an organized society "has to be evolved. The British Empire is often referred to '5 a miniature League of Nations,
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Professor" Coatman Justines that He does not pretend that the process will be rapidly achieved, but he maintains that as time goes on other rations will turn their eyes on the British Commonwealth in order to solve some of the. wider problems of international organization. Ith fof course, true that within the British Empire the problem of the use of war as an Instrument of polley has been virtually solved. No' Dominion can be retained against its will, The form of compulsion is almost nega tive in that the recusant nation has realize that once it exercises Ils ight 10 secede the probabilities, almost amounting to certainties, are that Htwillnot have the power to. return, This, of course, is historically true, as may be illustrated by the. cone sequences of the secession of the American states, although it would obviously Incorrect "to suggest that the return of America to. the fold of the British Empire has ever been seriously contemplated © by anyone on either side of the Atlant, with the distinguished exception of Mr. Bernard Shaw. But the cir cumstances which have rendered such return tmpractleable would "no doubt operate, by the inexorable course of events, if a secession, albeit "without" rebellion, were adopted by any members of "the British Empire. In these elreum= stances it Is clear that whatever progress the League of Nations may have In solving International rela~ tps, it has something to learn from the experiences and achiev ments of the various nations within the "British "Commonwealth. " Professor Coatman has brought to. the rudy of this of valuable mi ho mare shais Iucidly and effeetively.—et
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