OVERSEAS SECRETARIAT

Shannon News, 8 September 1925, Page 2

OVERSEAS SECRETARIAT

“Since the creation of the Board of Trade and Plantations in 1895, the history of Imperial administration has been one of developments which proceeded on unique and incalculable linos, determined by changing circumstances, and incapable of being reduced to any logical system. Many 'admirable plans have been formulated, but the more symmetrical they were, the less likelihood was there that they would ever take concrete shape. Topi-y-like, the British Empire lias just ‘growed.’ Its future development will be on the same organic and therefore unpredictable lines. But the creation of the Dominions Office, will undoubtedly assist in the progressive solution of many of those problems of Imperial functioning that have baffled the theorists. It will form the centre and the medium for consultation, and will thus contribute to a greater measure of effective unity among the self-governing peoples that constitute the British Commonwealth of Nations.”