THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1920, Page 5

THE EMPIRE.

Itrencth in union. gOPCJALITY ESSENTIAL. I tj W«fr*pli.«-Pim Awn.'^-Copyright. Beceived June 6, 1.20 a.m. ; London, June 2. (Premier of South „ Aid*), Interviewed by a Daily Chrpni«le cofmpoadaat, - declared that apart firon t£e -grave situation in Central and 'Extern Europe, and the apparent impotence of the League of Nations, British statesmen should give attention to t|e eowtlttttional position of the Btjtifl Eapte. Geographically, he said, the United KiMfMU fjW an adjunct of Europe, 'bUt'"~36fiUcaHy it was the centre of a •ortewide Empire. The United King(ljrnr" seemingly did not give attention 'to {he fundamental institutional Ranges brought about by the war in the-Commonwealth. The old Rrftish Empire was gone, in the genie that' it connoted colonies or subordinate nations clustering round one 'ttaiter ja»tign. Unfortunately the old ' maebinery stfll remained. fh Ksptfttd Mr. Bonar Law's contents! .-that Dominion liome rule was 'tapinuttmt in ft Separatist republic, asMrtmg: ''We ate an organic union, fohlitiftg one 'whole, with the King as the connecting link. Dissolution would .hrtWoltttionary 7*»re must be compM* Mnalitjr and freedom enjoyed by the sister State* uniteS by the King. G*lj ob ,-tbat foundation will the British 'Oommonwatlth last."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.