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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1937.

My £50,000,000 Plan For

NEW LIVES

TH

FOR OLD

By Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, M. P.

THE principal resolu- tion passed by the Empire Migration Conference held in London urged upon the Government the need to establish without delay a statutory authority with definite financial po- wers to initiate, consider and

into effect carry schemes of migration and development.

Board For

Settlement

This resolution was the out- (come of a proposal which I made to the Conference. I suggested that there should be a Board for Empire Settlement, consisting of persons, not members of the Government, who should be per- manently engaged upon the work of promoting, financing, and overseeing schemes of emigration.

SIR JOHN, Conservative

☆

Member for Kidder- minster. has travelled widely in the Dominions overseas. He is an expert on Colonial problems and an authority on finance.

His plan to people the empty spaces is based on knowledge and perience.

Permanent

CX-

Organisation

Money Was

Never Spent Under the earlier Empire

tion in other countries many to look upon spaces with envious eyes.

forces.

the open

It is not too much to say that if We do not develop our Empire it is unlikely that we will be able to hold it for long against those who are willing and able to do it.

The problem is also a very urgent one for us. If it is to our interests to encourage the development of industry, on terms which, in fact, mean some kind of subsidy, to relieve the Distressed Areas, it is surely equally important to initiate and support enterprises over-

́Settlement Act the Government seas which have exactly the

same object. sanctioned a sum not exceeding £3,000,000 in any one year for the purpose of financing schemes of migration.

In practice, as we all know, there have been no schemes of migration, speaking very gener- ally, for a number of years.

.

AS tbis

money was

never spent, in the

new Act of this year the annual cut down to expenditure was

In fact in many ways it may be more desirable to do so, for there is always the danger in this country that if, directly or indirectly, you subsidise indus- try in one part of this island,. you may be hitting at the pros- perity of a similar industry un- subsidised which already exists in another part of the country,

A Fine

Asset

Settlement of suitable people- overscus provides producers

THE important point in the sum of £1,500,000, and, as connection with the things stand to-day, there is setting up of this Board for just as little chance of any of and consumers, and should be Overseas Settlement is that it this being expended: should not be a body upon

the finest asset the Empire could have,

THIS WAY LIES RUIN Events of the past few years have shown the inefficacy and fulility of modern treaties. If the Brussels conference has done no more serious damage, it has added to the already bulky evidence in this regard. Nations no longer respect their obliga tions, though they be duly and formally signed and sealed; and co-signatories no longer feel obligated to enforce the terms of the agreement at risk of This condition of affairs does not induce respect for the morality of Governments, nor does it allow the man in the street to forget for long his had made additional efforts to what extent they are officially fear of the consequences of

This figure would not be avoid inflicting_injury_upon fostered by Governments which reached for sonic_considerable

which already overworked mem- It is obviously useless to act This Board should have co- bers of the Government anould up a Board at all, unless it is

The Old Country requires. opted upon it representatives of be expected to serve. It shuold

to have control of the finance their productions, and we want the Dominions and of the Col- be a permanent organisation not onial Empire, together with subject to changes by reason necessary to carry out its plans, them as consumers of our manu- and the proposals it should con- factures. But it is essential members of the prinicpal char- of Government. itable and other societies which have in the past done valuable

A body of this kind would sider must be on a broad and that they be suitable. doubtless work in close co- long-term basis. migration work and have special operation with the Departments

Emigration is no remedy in knowledge and experience of it. of the Government, such as the I have proposed, therefore, itself for unemployment. You The Board should endeavour Ministry of Labour and the that Empire Settlement Loans cannot dump people ovcrééns. to arrange the setting up of Ministry of Health, and. also should be raised from time to similar bodies in the principal with the various organisations time, as they may be required, The only people suitable must

omission are us great as the other variety, and will inevit-

Dominions, so that there would for promoting overseas settle-

overseas.

be the closest liaison between ment which already exist under a Government guarantee, be those who are willing and the Home Country and those some of the large provincial and that the Board should have anxious to 'go, and in many cases

authority and Power to initiate training will be essential. schemes which in the aggregate may amount to an expenditure of £50,000,000.

were

cities in this country.

* *

A Definite

HIT

X

THE schemes of settle- ment must be soundly

Willing

Settlers

"Teddy Foster and His Kings of Swing such iniquity. For the sins of civilians in the course of bomb-should know enough to keep time, and a loan to this extent backed, financially and other ing raids on Chinese cities out of such affairs the present will not be wanted at once, but wise, and carefully worked out

the knowledge that they have after the powers' explosive pro-investigation of the French plot authority to initiate schemes in full consultation with those- ably lead to a state of inter-tests. Many were almost ready may disclose. But if French which in the end may require who thoroughly know the condi- national lawlessness on an even

an to admit that such non-combat-and Russian communists plot in such expondíture is the tions in the lands selected. wider scale than that the

ant deaths a9 had occurred Italy, and Italian and German whole basis upon which success There must be no additions to

is likely to be built.up. world is experiencing at the

the result of accident. totalitarians plot in France, like |

the bread queues in Dominion moment.

cities. They will find it awkward now. Russia's agents plot the work | There were four widelyBut the failure of Brussels' con- over, it is time to realise and separated events reported byference to take any action to guard against such international the world's

press yesterday prevent further violation of gangsterism. which were apparently not re-treaties, and Japan's anxiety to Finally there is Herr Hitler's Inted in any way but which, on finish with the lawless campaign prediction of a return of colonies closer observation, rovcal all too obviously the trend of our unpredictable times and the probability that they owed their origin, at least to a degree, to this very moral laxity among nations against which thinking men complain. They were!

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Rolnys

1. The persistant and ruthless use of the aeroplane in war against non-military objectives

in China;

demand

or

Contribution

On the other hand there are [ITHERTO the Govern-

settlers who ment has maintained certain willing in China, may have combined to to Germany. There can be no the principle that some portion have, under our unemployment cause. a cessation of caution. In fault to find with the prediction of the cost of an agreed scheme system, paid for years what is

must be provided by the any event the futility of the

or the hope, but only with the Dominion concerned.

in fact a premium for their treaty outlawing air warfare on

method. "It is absolutely es-

security in the event of their non-combatants

There is, no doubt much to ill-health or falling out of em- more sential to make herself strong Orice illustrated,

so that she can successfully be said for having such a con- ployment. They are naturally

often for- reluctant to lose these benefits. the return of her tribution, but it is As for the second instance of colonics." Herr Hitler said of gotten that in other ways most,

all, of the Dominions In some cases, at any rate, it retrogradation. the Brussels Germany. Not a word about if not parley's failure, the sooner it is reasoned appeals for the reform do already contribute indirectly will be necessary to ensure that

athey make available for new forgotten the better for the of the treaty by which Germany by means of the facilities which they do not lose in this way.

lost her possessions; not

It is surely not beyond the self-respect of those concerned sensible argument for the joint settlers..

wit of man to prepare a scheme exploitation, Suffice it to say that the failure' development,

The Dominions afford oppor- by which these benefits can in Having tunities for them to market their some way be funded, so that at 2. The dismal, lust, convulsive of co-signatories of the Nine-of mandated areas.

smashed other clauses of the produce and otherwise ensure any rate the emigrant will not

lose anything by the contribu-- movements of the Brussels con- Power Pact and Kellogg-Briand Versailles Treaty Herr Hitler their success.

tions he has already made to a ference;

Pact to do more than talk and gives warning that, growing

There is a very definite con- fund upon which he will not in 3. The added indication of argue has made them accessory from strength to strength, Ger-

many will presently demand tribution in the shape of roads, the future be a claimant? what no power will dare to railway communications, mar- outside influence-behind the to the crime in China, French revolt, plot:

The third event of the day refuse for fear of the conse-kota, schools, universities, elec- Is that a policy cal-tric power, telegraphs and tele- was the French allegation that quences.

culated to keep pence? Is it phones. outside influences were at work compatible with the German repeated assurances fomenting revolt and intrigue leader's Of the first instance, which is in France. Borders have cossed that Germany's whole policy is that in many future schemes be the object of much criticism, aimed at prevention of war? the Dominions will feel able to and rightly so, but they are in- to mean anything to revolu- That is the sort of talk that take a definite financial interest, tended as an honest endeavour

fast rule.. YOU left to be said by way of tionaries, whether they are an- makes neighbours say to them-this should not be a hard and to try to break the shuckles

censure. Wusih and Soochow archist, communist or fascist,selves: If Germany feels she is strong enough to demand this, are only the latest of a series it appears. They are fighting she may demand that. This of breaches of international an underground and secret war we might give, but that we will

surrender without understandings and agreements of their own and their enemies, not

struggle. calculated to reassure a world frequently their victimas, are

Somewhere, some which trembled at the thought simply those of an opposite of the carnage which modern political persuasion, Nationality other, the world took a wrong to secure new settlers. Indeed, find anxious to try the wider life turning. Blessed will be the it is a very urgent matter for which is waiting for them in the involve. warfare would

man who shall point the road them in this age, when the ever- open spaces of the Empire Over- It may, have nothing to do with

increasing pressure of popula- eens. seemed, for a time, that Japan these latter-day revolutions. To back.

4. Herr Adolf Hitler's attitude with respect to the colonial question.

only one of many, there is litle

......

time

a

or

Open To

Criticism

· Although it is to be hoped Our proposal will doubtless

An Urgent

Matter

which, both here and averschs, seem to bind the whole ques-.. tion of Empire Migration.

If accepted; I bellove that they would go far to reopent- IT is greatly to the in- emigration to those of suitable terests of the Dominion age who are healthy, willing,

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