EMPIRE BONDS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1921, Page 2

EMPIRE BONDS

LORD MILNER’S VIEWS. . BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. «b (Received this day at 8 a.mj LONDON, February ?. Lord Milner interviewed on the eve of his retirement from the Colonial Office, said all vestige of subjection of the Dominions to the Motherland had disappeared. The only basis on which the Empire can survive is a partnership work instead of affirming and reaffirming the Dominions’ Independence which nobody disputes, we should concentrate our attention on the practical point of how six independent Governments at different ends of the earth can give one another the greatest mutual assistance, and how most effectively to uphold the interests we possess in common. It is admitted that common interests of paramount importance exist, hut no sooner does anyone make any proposal for organising the dominions co-operation and putting it on a workable basis, than somebody raises the cry of endangering the Dominions independence and the thing ends in nothing being done. Personally I am sure nothing ever will be done to organise the Empire partnership' by proposals commencing from Britain. The impulse must come from the Domin-, ions, which as they grow and think out their own future, will realise is unattainable without tlie help of the rest.