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kinds of firearms, artillery and ammunition, and has recently be- giin manufacturing seroplanes and aeroplane accessories. In this effort New Zealand wants both to contribute and to share. There is, therefore, a large agenda for this conference. While the Navy remains the first line of defence for both countries the Air Force now comes a very good second, and consultation in both fields must take place. In addition there is the preparation of a common de- fence programme, the mainten- ance and use of the Singapore base, the contributions to be made by each to the general de- fence of the Pacific, and the as- sistance which each Dominion can receive from Great Britain.

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Silent M.Ps.

Sir Edward Campbell's record' of eighteen months' silence in the

Hong Kong, Monday, April 10, 1939. House of Commons, while (cyni-

THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE

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ever

cally speaking) creditable, does not entitle him to any really proud place among the records of reticence. Major J. D. Hope, who was elected for Berwick in 1900 and retained his seat until 1922, The Dominions, like the British did not during the whole of that Government, are beginning to time open his mouth in the House take the "steps necessary in the of Commons. Another silent light of "present developments member achieved the remarkable for their own "protection," and feat of attaining front bench the conference which is to take honours and actually becoming place in New Zealand' is a move | Eme

chief Government Whip without in that direction. Such a confer-

the Speaker. addressing ence has not been held since 1912, This was Mr. Glyn, who, in 1872, when Lord Kitchener made this when Disraeli called for an ex- famous survey, although theplanation from the Whips, men- question of Empire defence has tioned that this was his first been considered continuously by speech in fifteen years. the Committee of Imperial De But even these remarkable re- fence and by successive Imperial cords shrink before the achieve- Conferences. The urgency of the ment of General Forester, who re- situation is obviously one renson presented Much Wenlock for forty for the conference. The defence years without finding it neces of Australia and New Zealand sary or desirable to open his raises different questions from mouth on the affairs of his A der- that of Canada and South Africa, country or constituents.

tain Sir Charles Burrell, who re- Canada's geographical position is

a defence in itself. In the case of presented Westminster, might South Africa there is no hostile have beaten · General Forester's country with a navy strength suf- record but for a' single unhappy ficient to attack her, and the na-lapse into loquacity: Sir Charles ture of her country and the skill sat for sixty years in the House of the South Africans in guerrilla and broken silence only once-

to comment on a bill providing warfare make that country specially well equipped for land that housemaids should be for- defence. The same cannot be said Hidden to clean windows from the of Australia or of New Zealand. outside. Both have long coast-lines, both

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are entirely isolated, and Japan is "The Orient” for both a Power with dubious in-

tentions. Before the war the The report of the Imperial Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the Shipping Committee on "British predominant position of the Bri- Shipping in the Orient," is incid- tish Fleet left: Australians and entally a symptom of a change in New Zealanders secure from any English usage. Has H. M. Station- fear of attack. This security no ery Office ever before published a longer exists.

document in which the term "the In the second place, both coun- Orient" has been used to denote tries are realising that in the the region in which China and matter of defence they must now Japan, are the most important rely more on their own strength. Powers? Hitherto the normal The necessity of air defence, the term for that section of the globe aggressive character of Japan, has been "the East" or "the Far and the feeling that in a Euro- East," and anyone who wrote of pean conflict Britain might be the Orient," except in poetry, forced to concentrate the whole would have been regarded by of her defence forces in Europe many as affected and pretentious. have brought home to the Aus- If the Shipping Committee's in- tralians and New Zealanders the novation becomes generally ac- necessity for providing for their cepted it will be another example own defence. During the three of the Americanisation -- ourTM

"of

United years ending 1941 Australia is English idiom. In the increasing her defence expendi States "the Orient", has long ture from fifteen to over forty been in everyday lise in the most. three million pounds and New prosaic of commercial and politi Zealand is increasing hers too. cal newspapers. There is a reason. Thirdly, the necessity for for this. By "the Past" an Ameri- co-operation in defence between can naturally understands the the two countries also arises out eastern section of his own vast of the present situation. Prepara- cou ry as distinct from the West

tatės.

for insta tions have to be made in the Air Forces and in the Navy, and it is

Truslow Ad

TD. here that consultation is neces

sary. New Zealand has no ary industries at all Australia is building up industries, is already making

nöt in Chin” but

tlantic seaboard."