BRITISH POLITICS.
WESTMINSTER STATUTE. (United Press Association.—By Electric ' Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, -November 23. “The Times” political correspondent says: There has been an interval for reflection which has steadied many Members of the House of Commons, who are now beginning to realise the serious effect on Imperial relations of any light-hearted handling of the Statute of Westminster. “The Times” editorially, hopes that the House of Commons will reject the suggestion that it should hold up the Statute, and should engage in an acrimonious wrangle with the Dominions over pedantic points of constitutional law. “The Statute,” it says, “by sweeping away the old traces of inequality, clears the ground,, for a new ’ unity, based on common interests an 1 loyalty to the Throne.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1931, Page 5
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