Minister's Return From Extensive Tour: A Precedent London, Feb, 12.
Mr. L. S. Amery, the Colonial' Secretary, has returned' from his 53,000-mile Empire tour. He averaged 260 miles a day and delivered over 380 speeches since his departure from England on July 22, Feb. 13.
The Colonial Secretary, Mz. L, S. Amery, was back in the House Commons to-day after his tour of the Dominions. He was greeted with loud cheering.
In an interview he declared that his tour had been exceedingly useful in increasing his own knowledge of the conditions and problems of the Dominions and in improving -the understanding between the Domin-fons and the home country. He thought that the precedent which hho had set in making such a tour would be followed in the future anc that it would be regarded henceforth as the frst duty of a Colonial Secretary to visit the various parts of the Empire.
"We cannot expect the Dominions Ministers to do all the travelling," the declared. "At the Imperial Conference one meets two or three Ministers but, going round, I have been able to meet practically every Minister as well as leaders of the Opposition and prominent men in every walk of life who could bring me in touch with the life of the community. In my speeches 7 sought everywhere to show that the old" era of Empire relationship closed with the last Imperial Conference and that the equal freedom of the Dominions under the Crown was the freedom, not of irresponsibility but of responsibility."—British Wireless through Reuter.
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