IMPERIAL UNION
SOLVING THE PROBLEM. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, November 14. Sir Donald McKenzie Wallace, in a speech at the Authors' Club, dealing with Imperial obligations, said that 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 he the new nexus holding together the sporadic units? It was unreasonable to expect the present powerful sentimental tie of brotherhood of itself to resist for all time the centrifugal force 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, the other a free trade union strong enough to compete with the rest of the world. Better types might be discovered, but the solution of the problem would constitute a triumph of statesmanship.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 16 November 1911, Page 5
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145IMPERIAL UNION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 16 November 1911, Page 5
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