IMPERIAL RELATIONS.
THE COLONIAL OFFICE. (rilOM OCB OWS COUISMHIBI-) LONDON, March H. M a complimentary dinner given ia honour of Sir Timothy Cogblan, retiring Agent-General for New South Wales, after Imving held the position for nearly twenty years, Mr h. S. Amery was ouo of the guests *ad one of the speakers. "You complain," said Mr Amcrr, "of the name Colonial Office, hot thai name is perfectly proper in one respect. It is a Colonial Office. It ia reapansiblc for the direction and development of great territories with native populations. But it is also a quite different office, or rather a different oflleo ia housed in the same building, and thai t is the office which is colonial aaly »» the sense of historical retrospect. That is to say, the great Dominions, tha nations with, which it deals, many yean ago sprang out of small setumttata, and were tinder the control of th© Colonial Office, but now that part of the office to which 1 belong does not exercise the functions of direction and administration. It excrciaea perely thc functions of coojeration, and acta as the liaison' office 1-ctwccn the British Government and the Governmenta of the sister !><>ii > iiik>k.<'. It is. in fact, really a different office and th«w«fr that difference may bo concealed from the outside world by t >.: solid grey block of buildings in Downing street, it is a very real one. Each part of the Colonial Office carries on its own work in its own way. and I hope that, on our side, it has contributed something to the common welfare At any rate, wc can but endeavour, whatever tho namo may be. to do our best for tho welfare of tho whole.'*
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18363, 22 April 1925, Page 9
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286IMPERIAL RELATIONS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18363, 22 April 1925, Page 9
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