Evening star., 1927-08-28
EFFORT TO SAVE TORIES
SEEN In BALDWIN'S TRIP
Prime Minister Declared Seeking Strong
Foreign Policy to Offset Record
of Failure at Home.

wise imperial policy are Tory trsdl-
tions. Responsive to these Baldwin
| has come to Canada.
| And for the British Tory the Cana
dian situation is fraught with gravest
danger. The unmistakable march,
not alone of Canada, but of South
Africa and even Australia. to the con-
| dltion of Independent states has been
| at once a shock and cause Of resent
ment. Moreover. in the case of Can
ada, while there is not the smallest
sign of any desire on the Canadian
part for union with the United States
or on our part for any annexation of
Canada, Tory England perceives
clearly that Canada has passed under
American influence in may directions.
Our press, our magazines. our ''mov.
les circulate. Industrially and eco.
nomically Canada tends more and more
toward partnership with the United
States. What Is even more impress
sive. in foreign questions the Cana
dians tend more and more to see Eu.
rope from an American standpoint.
If one reads the press of the ex.
treme Tories Ohe National Review of
Leo Maxse is at once the ablest and
the most typical Tory voice., one finds
almost fncessant reference to the
Canadian question and it's American
aspect. There is emphasis of what
seems the grave menace incident to
the financial penetration of Canada
! by American capital. There is a sense
| that Canada under American inspira-
tion, wholly unconsciously perhaps, is
at one time moving toward independ.
ence and toward an American state Of
! inird.
Stimulate Imperial Sentiment.
| This apprehension explains Bald.
wins excursion. He and the Prince
of Wales visited Canada to stimulate
| the imperial sentiment. Such evi.
dences of loyalty and sympathy as
| the various public receptions evoked
and there have been many-wiIl in
turn be exploited politically to advan.
tage of the domestic and parochial
situation of the Tories. 1t is, then.
something wholly analogous to the
| political adventure we call Swinging
round the circle" that Stanley Bald.
win has undertaken. He and the
Prince have come to serve as propa.
sanda for imperial unity and to sup.
ply Campaign ammunition for the
Tories within the limits of the Brit
ish Isles.
BE British and buy British goods"
Is the double message of the dis.
tinguished missionaries. Somewhat To
their distaste, they have to deliver
1t to dominion which has a Liberal.
not Tory cabinet. and they have had
TO deal with Canadian prime minis.
ter who was elected in the teeth of
the party which proclaimed the gospeI
of imperial unity and bitterly de.
nounced what it regarded as the sep.
aratlsm and the Americanism of Mac.
kenzie King. Much the same phe.
nomenon was disclosed when at the
last imperial conference Baldwin as
Ihe prophet of imperial unity had to
zeal with Hertzog, the South African
premier, who is for the British Tories
the high priest of imperial dissolution.
Spectacle to Americans,
from the point of view of the United
states, the latest British effort js
spectacle rather than a matter of great
concern. We are not making nrona.
sanda in Canada and if we should at.
tempt 1T we should contribute the Iars.
est conceivable impulse to imperial
UNITY. Yet it is worth nothing that
the whole operation does represent =
deliberate and considered effort to
counteract the effect which contiguity
ana common geographical conditions
nave mad IN promoting close associa.
tion between Canada and the United
states and the DEVELOPMENT of what
might be described as an Americ, :,
mentality, using American in the con.
tinental sense.
II Is to arrest the process which to
t the eyes of British Tories is one of
me Americanization of Canada that
me charming Prince and the amiabls
premier have crossed the Atlantic.
me assumed success of this under.
taxing, too, will figure conspicuously
Al IN, ,he llst OF deeds to which the Tories
will point with pride" in the an.
preaching election, which cannot 4.
postponed much more than another
year. Meantime, so far as Canada
ana the United States are concerned
one may hazard the guess that ''busi.
ness as usual will be the upshot OF
the whole interesting incident.
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