EMPIRE UNITY.
MOTHERLAND & DOMINIONS. SIR JAMES ALLEN'S SPEECH, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, ,; , Received June 24, 9.25 p.m. London, June 23. Sir James Allen, speaking at a Victoria League meeting at the Guildhall, warmly repudiated a suggestion that New Zealand does not welcome the British wives of New Zealand soldiers. He hoped Britain would send an equal number of men to marry New Zealand wives. He reminded Imperial statesmen that the relations of the Dominion with the Motherland had materially changed since the war. New Zealand had now grown up, and her signature to the Peace Treaty and her membership of the League of Nations amounted to a recognition of New Zealand as a separate entity. There were, in the future, possibilities of separation and independence, although probably less in New Zealand than elsewhere, but Sir James Allen urged closer co-operation to maintain and strengthen the unity of the Empire. Lord Forster (the newly-appointed Governor-General of Australia) eulogised the Victoria League's work in Australia and the other Dominions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 June 1920, Page 5
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168EMPIRE UNITY. Taranaki Daily News, 25 June 1920, Page 5
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