NO CHANGE TO BE MADE
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. . Terminology Of Empire Or CommonweaSth
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' Received Tuesday, 11.30 a.m, i LONDON, May 2. Tlie Prime Min-ispr, Mr, Attlee, said ip a Parliamentary reply that; ohere was no agreement to adopt or exeiuhe the use of any of the cerms "Commonweal'th," "British Gommonw&aLh" -or ."Empire." ; Mr. Attlee said: "The - 'terminoiogy, if it is to. be useful, keeps :.tep with deve.opme'nt without Decoming rigid and doctrinaire. Al. eonsci.utional developments in the.; Commonwealth1, British Commonwcaitn and Empire — and T :use the ohree terms ' deliberately — -have oeen subject to oonsuhation beoween His Majesty-'s -Governments and there has been no agreement ,o adopt or exc.uae the use of any one of these terms,.. nor any uecision in the Uniced Kingdom to do so." t Mr. Attlee added that opinions differed in diff erent parts of the Commonwea.th and Empire, and it was cetter tq ailow ihe people to use what they liked best.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 May 1949, Page 5
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