GREAT BRITAIN AND CANADA
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Europe has become spacebound. It has outgrown itself. That is at the bottom of the existing economic impasse. What Europe pressingly needs, therefore, is a territorial re- allocation of its surplus population. Until a way be found to provide for growth and development, events will keep moving in a false circle with parasitism spreading unchecked. More elemental as ultimately depending upon it—more elemental, I hold, than the Budgetary Balance or the Trade Balance is the Biological Balance.
But is there a way ? There is, if the will is there. Confining myself to England, with one bold stroke England could lift herself out of her choking constringency. And this in trans- muting the platonic relationship with Canada into a true, real partnership on a basis of reciprocity : a marriage of Force and Matter, as it were. It would bring to both a re- juvenating accession of fresh impulses. Canada has the resources (just think, an area of more than thirty-seven. million square miles, considerably exceeding that . of the- United States, with a population of only about nine million) : while England has the wherewithal to. develop them. Let fresh centres of population be set up with their train of house-, holds, farms, factories, shops, &c., and all will move forward with a swing. Do it now. It can be done. It must be done. Palliative measures dealing with symptoms will only postpone the day of reckoning. The disorder is sure to break out anew with increased virulence. Get at the root ! Retrenchment will not solve England's problem, not even if coupled with Tariff, indispensable as protective measures though they be. That which alone can save England is Redisintegrafion.—I am, Sir, &c., GABRIEL WEr.rs. • Carlton Mansion, 14 Pall Mall, S.W. 1.
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