DWINDLING INTEREST.
BRITAIN AND THE EMPIRE. By Toloerauh—Press Association—Copyright London, April G. Lord Curzon, in a speech at the Junior Imperial League dinner, deplored the dwindling interest in Imperial mailers. "Perhaps," ho'said, "to a certain extent Empire has conquered ns." Meetings of Imperial Conferences on defence and trade had produced the ptfofoundost impression oil public opinion,'and had oven influenced Liberal opinion, little was now heard about dropping thp colonies; it was rather , a question whether tho colonies would drop us. Lack of interest in Imperial affairs* was due largely to Socialism and anti-Imperialist propaganda, which offered as a solution spoliation and confiscation of capital. One of the duties of thp next Unionist Government, said Lord Curzon, would ba ~i searching inquiry regarding the cost of Radical administration, which had erected a vast burcaitcaey composed of political adherents.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1718, 8 April 1913, Page 5
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137DWINDLING INTEREST. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1718, 8 April 1913, Page 5
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