MUCH IN A NAME
UNIT OF EMPIRE BEST DESIGNATION Exception to the designation, so frequently used in Parliament, of New Zealand’s status with the Homeland as “ part of the Commonwealth of British Nations ” was expressed by Mr Frank Milner in speaking to members and guests of the Commercial Travellers’ Association on Saturday night. The speaker explained that this designation merely acknowledged the free state of those parts of the Empire which byjhe Statute of Westminster became autonomous. As an autonomous dominion. New Zealand was under no compulsion in any form to Britain, paying no taxes to Britain, but depending on her for security, for trade, and for practically everything. There was nothing wrong with the term “British Empire”; in fact, we should bo proud of our right to use it.
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Evening Star, Issue 23682, 16 September 1940, Page 4
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130MUCH IN A NAME Evening Star, Issue 23682, 16 September 1940, Page 4
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