Oct. 12.
Mr, J. H. Thomas's recent sit to Canada and his plans for, settling in the Dominions those for whom the Mother Country, cannot find employment aire another step on the road to Intperial' unity "which it is bé- Hieved by many that the Li hour Government will ultimately follow at least as keenly as the Conservatives. This is not meré- ly a question of internal need, but of external, America's pole icy of seclusion and aloofness from world polities shows no sign of becoming less rigid. In retort to it, we have M. Briand's scheme of a United States of Europe and, even if that should not materialize, the presumption is that economic barriers will tend to grow higher rather than lower. The whole force of cit cumstances is to throw the British Empire back upon its own resources and compel it to substitute for its present loosely, knit constitution some system wheth will more closely bind its component parts and stimulate the exchange between one sec tion and another of its comm dities, peoples and wealth, Thoughts of this kind have me spired a striking article in the empire Mail" by Sir Robert Hadfield, entitled "A Plan for Organized Empire Development." Sir Robert says that the time is ripe for the establishment of an Empire Council, and argues for such a body most forcibly. We have, of course, our conferences of Premiers, deliberations of representative business mem, and discussions of economist: These are all to the good, but hough." Such gatherings: only they, do not go nearly" far
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