The Archive · 1939

In Ruling Colonies

Selfish Aims — Development of Dominions Said to Be Triumph Necessity for Home Government Eliminated

London, June 7.

RITAIN had achieved a "triumphant success" in her rule over her Dominions, declared Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Secre tary of State for the Colonies introducing the Colonial Office "We have guided their affairs," he went on, "until our Government has reached the glorious climax of being able to extin-guise itself.

The Dominions each has become a nation of its, own estimates in the House of Commons today.

"Their peoples are undisputed arbiters of their own destinies, and the peoples of India and Burma have advanced a long way along the same constitutional road.

Without any doubt, the evolution of the British Commonwealth of Free Nations is one of the happiest, the wisest, the most beneficent achievements of all time.

"Are we going io be equally the advancement oí f the selfish justified in the Government of the interests of the peoples of the British Colonial Empire?"

In most colonial Isles.

It was the general advance-territories, he|ment of the interers of the people went on, the British were still, to c greater or lesser degree, the trustees and guardians,

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