"EMPIRE."
NOT AN UNPOPULAR GREED. SPEECH BY LORD CURZON. Received May 27, 9 a.m. LONDON, May 26. Lord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India, at an Empire banquet at the Hotel Cecil, denied that "Empire" was an unpopular creed or received with extreme distrust by the modern democracy, for deep in the heart of every Britisher was ineradicable pride of race. He advocated the looping of all British possessions by cables exclusively British, and cheaper thai,) now, and welcomed the growth of Imperial education in schools. Lord Curzon said he thought a rerefurmed Housu of Lords should be a means of 'affording greater representation for the colonies and dependencies. The time was r.ot ripe for an Imperial deliberative council, though that would come, but imperial conferences supplied the means of common consultations. Before lorg there -(voulrl be another confererre, perhaps under another minister, followed by better results.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9100, 28 May 1908, Page 5
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145"EMPIRE." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9100, 28 May 1908, Page 5
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