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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1933, Page 4

“The true bond of Empire is the spiritual bond,” said Mr John Buchan. M.P., the Lord High Commissioner, at A Church iff' Scotland meeting. “Its cohesion, is in its ideals and not in its

form of government. It means that over a large part of the earth’s euriace racial and national limitations have been transcended. It is an instalment of tlie old drtani of the brotherhood of man. It means that one groat part of the globe at least is marked out where there can he no war. It is not a proud, racial aristocracy to dominate the world; it is an alliance based partly on a common creed, a common civilisation and a common faith. Its name of Empire has been often taken in vain. Many false and vainglorious words have been spoken about it, and too often it has been conceived in the terms of a shallow materialism. lint that is hot the true Empire. The true Empire is a spiritual thing based essentially upon Christian ideals. There is no parallel in history to our vast assemblage of rcattered peoples, linked together by a faith and a purpose, asking no tribute of each other, but reedy, as the war showed, to enter on behalf of its sane and honest ideals into a common snerilice. It i>, a union in far more than the function of government.”