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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1037,

THIS WAY LIES RUIN Events of the past few years have shown the inefficacy and fulility of modern treaties. If the Brussels conference

war.

has

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My £50,000,000 Plan For

NEW LIVES FOR OLD

By Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, M. P:

THE principal resolu- tion passed by the Empire Migration Conference held in Lonion urged upon the Government the need to establish without delay a statutory authority with definite financial po- wers to initiate, consider and carry into effect schemes of migration and development.

Board For

Settlement

ISIR 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 an knowledge and ex- perience.

Permanent

Organisation.

☆

Money Was

Never Spent Under the earlier Empire Settlement Act the Government

tion in other countries many to look upon

forces

the open

spaces with envious eyes.

our

It is not too much to say that if we

do not develop Empire it is unlikely that we will be able to hold it for long against those who are

and able to do it.

willing

A very

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

SERA

In fact in many ways it may

sanctioned a sum not exceeding £3,000,000 in any one year for the purpose of financing schemes be more desirable to do so, for of migration.

there is always the dunger in this country that if, directly or indirectly, you subsidise indus- ry in one part of this island, - you may be hitting at the pros- perity of a similar industry un- subsidised which already exists was in another part of the country. A Fine

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

AS this money

never spent, in the

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

Asset

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 Government, who should be per- of persons, not members of the

THE important point in the sum of £1,500,000, and, as

Settlement of suitable people connection with the things stand to-day, there is

overseas provides producers. work of promoting, fuancing, Overseas Settlenient is that it this being expended. manently engaged upon, the

setting up of this Board

for just as little chance of any of and consumers, and should be. and overseeing schemes of emigration.

the

finest asset the Empire

it is essential

The only people suitable must

be the closest liaison between ment which already exist in under a Government guarantee, bo 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. cities in this country.

overseas.

schemes which in the aggregate

may amount to an expenditure

| of £50,000,000.

* *

should not be a body upon which already overworked mem- It is obviously useless to set could have, Jack Harris & His Orchestra

This Board should have co- bers of the Government should up a Bourd at all, unless it is Let us be sweethearts over again-Waltz

The Old Country requires. Jack Harris & His Orchestra done no more serious damage, it te Dominions pret of the col be a permanent organisation not to have contral of the firiance their productions, and we want

opted upon it representatives of be expected to serve. It shuol BD-5265 Caravan-Fox Trot Jack Harris & His Orchestra

Tay Trumpet-Novelty Fox Trot

has added to the already bulky | onia! Empire, together with subject to changes by reason necessary to carry out its plans, then as consumers of our manu-

and the proposals it should con- factures. But Jack Harris & His Orchestra evidence in this regard. Nations members of the prinicpal char- of Government.

itable and other societies which BD-5268 Love was born--Fox Trot

no longer respect their obliga-have in the past done valuable

A body of this kind would sider must be on a broad and that they be suitable. Billy Mayer & His Orchestra

tions, though they be duly and migration work and have special operation with the Departments

doublicas work in close co- long-term basis. Stranger in a cup of tea-FT.

Emigration is no remedy in Billy Mayerl & His Orchestra formally signed and sealexi: and knowledge and experience of it. of the Government such as the I have proposed, therefore, itself for unemployment. You (Both from "Crazy Days").

co-signatories no longer feel

The Board should endeavour Ministry of Labour and the that Empire Settlement Loans cannot dump people overseas. obligated to enforce the terms similar bodies in the principal with the various organisations time, as they may be required, to arrange the setting up of Ministry of Health, and also should be raised from time to

of the agreement at risk of Dominions, so that there would for promoting overseas Nettle-

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

THE schemes of settle- fear of the consequences of

This figure would not be 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 avoid inflicting injury upon fostered by Governments which reached for some considerable

ment must be soundly

omission are as great as the

ing raids on Chinese, cities out of such affairs the present will not he wanted at once, but wise, and carefully worked out other variety, and will inevit-

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 to admit that such non-combat-and Russian communists plot in such nn expenditure is

the tions in the lands selected. unt deaths as had occurred Italy, and Italian and German whole basis upon which success There must be no additions to

is likely to be built up. the result of accident. totalitarians plot in France, like

the bread queues In Dominion They will find it awkward now. Russia's agents plot the world

eities. There were four widely (But the failure of Brussels' con-jover, it is time to realise and separated events reported by ference to take any action to guard against such international the world's press yesterday prevent further violation of gangsterism.

Contribution which were apparently not re-treaties, and Japan's anxiety to Finally there is Herr Hitler's

On the other hand there are fated in any way but which, on finish with the lawless campaign prediction of a return of colonies

HITHERTO the Govern-

ment has maintained certain willing settlers who closer observation, reveal all in China, may have combined to to Germany. There can be no the principle that some portion have, under our unemployment too obviously the trend of our cause a cessation of caution. In fault to find with the prediction of the cost of an agreed scheme unpredictable Limes and the any event the futility of the or the hope, but only with the Dominion concerned.

the system, paid for years what Is must be provided by

in fact a premium for their probability that they owed their treaty outlawing air warfare on method. "It is absolutely es

security in the event of their origin, at least to a degree, le non-combatanta is oneu morejsential to make herself strong There is, no doubt much to fil-health or falling out of em- this very moral laxity among illustrated.

so that she can successfully be said for having such a con- ployment. They are naturally demand the return of her tribution, but it is often for- reluctant to lose these benefits. nations against which thinking

As for the second instance of colonies," Herr Hitler said of gotten that in other ways most, men' complain. They were:

In some cases, at any rate, it retrogradation, the

all, of the Dominions 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 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 they make available for now It is surely not beyond the self-respect of those concerned. sensible argument for the joint settlers. Suffice it to say that the failure' development,

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wider scale than that the world is experiencing at the moment.

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

in China;

3. The

outside

were

or

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A Definite

Willing

Settlers

wit of man to prepare a scheme

Criticism

explo.cation, 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, last, convulsive of co-signatories of the Nine-of mandated areas.

smashed other clauses of the produce and otherwise

ensure any rate the migrant will not movements of the Brussels con- Power Pact and Kellogg-Briand Versailles Treaty Herr Hitler their success.

lose anything by the contribu- ference;

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

tions he has already male to a There is a very definite con- fund upon which, he will not in 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 influence behind the to the crime in China,

no power will dare to railway communications, mar.

Open To French revolt plot;

The third event of the day refuse for fear of the conse-kets, schools, universities, elec

Is that a policy cal-tric power, telegraphs and tele- 4.Herr Adolf Hitler's attitude was the French allegation that quences,

culated to keep peace? Is it phones. with respect to the colonial outside influences were, at work compatible with the German Although it is to be hoped Our proposal will doubtless

fomenting revolt, and intrigue leader's Of the first instance, which is in France. Borders have ceased that Germany's whole policy is that in many future schemes be the object of much criticism, That is the sort of talk that take a definite financial interest, tended as an honest endeavour only one of many, there is little to mean anything to revolu- aimed at prevention of war? the Dominions will feel able to and rightly so, but they clim try to break the shackles which, both here and overacas, 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

seem to bind the whole ques Wusih and Soochow archist, communist or fascist, scives: If Germany feels she is strong enough to demand this,

tion of Empire Migration. are only the latest of a series it appears. They are fighting she may demand that. This

Matter

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

question.

censure.

repeated assurances

fast rule.

An Urgent

of breaches of international (an underground and secret war we might give, but that we will surrender without A understandings and agreements of their own and their enemies, not

struggle. calculated to reassure a world frequently their victims, are!

Somewhere, some time ol 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, and 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 Warfare would involve. It may have nothing to do with man who shall point the road them in this age, when the over open spaces of the Empire Over-

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