AL different times we hear pessimistie reports about the very thin threads which bind the Dominions to the Empire, a phrase attributed by the press to Mr. Stanley Ballwin, who is reported to have said in a House of Commons debate on a vote of censure on the subject of unem: ployment that was hie view, and the view shared peeetad ape a rie could "be constructed in the.
co-operation, with m view to the" eeonemie. unt the Empire, there' was a real Fish that in time the the "Enipire mig 'Unty "could" be. approached way. in which ly utilizing' dations Five days later; Mr. Fenton, Ausralia's Ministes for Customs, in ai speech before the British Empire League pleading for a greater degree of Empire unity, and explaining: Australia's attitude with regard to her tariff, concluded his remarks by saying that Australia was British to the backbone, It is true that no one is sharper in his!
ism of the Empire than the colonial, but there ix undoubtedly much truth in Mr Kenton's contention that for the most part the inhabitants of our colonies are solid-British,
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