IMPERIAL UNITY.
SENTIMENTAL TIE CANNOT BE RELIED ON. WHAT SHALL TAKE ITS PLACE ? (Received 15, 8.5 a.m.) London, November 14. Sir Donald McKenzie Wallace, speaking at the Authors’ Club, dealing with Imperial obligation's, said the antiquated idea of a great Empire governed by a group of clerks in Downing Street was out of the question ; but what was to be the new nexus holding together sporadic units? It was unreasonable to the present powerful sentimental tic of brotherhood of itself to resist for all time the centrifugal forces of local interests. It must be supported and strengthened by prosaic material advantages. He could only imagine two types of Imperial federation—one resembling the old German Zollverein or the other a free trade union strong enough to compete with the the world. Better types might be discovered, but the solution of the problem would constitute a triumph of statesmanship.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 79, 15 November 1911, Page 6
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147IMPERIAL UNITY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 79, 15 November 1911, Page 6
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