Colonel Llewellyn, First Civil Lord of the Admiralty who leads "the British delegation" to the 180th anniversary when interviewed. said; "The fet that so much was being done to sirengihen the Singapore Base showed the world-and the people of Austvalia—ihat Britain meant to come to Australia's id if the necessity arose. Australia': British heritage. which gave hey 88 per cent. of British stock, should be preserved it all costs." The "all-British" appearance of the Australian "man in the street" compared. even with London and other Empire cities, is one of the Colonel's outstanding: impressions.
Sir Henry Morris-Jones, a Lord Commissioner of the British Treasury, sid he had been struck the different types of country in the different States, and by the fact hat Australians Were nevertheless one people—free, prosperous, equal without snobbery or subservience, fund with a great gift of the spirit service without fobsequichasness, Dr. Dalton, member of - British House of Commons, x0id that he had Known any Australians, and" had. read. touch vl Auciralia, He had Kenown before he came that he would find an atmiespkere of don ocracy. fuellness and social equality, free from snobbishness on the one' hand, and servility on the other, which would appeal to him most powerfully.
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