AN IMPERIAL ISSUE.
Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand would hesitate at no sacrifice if the supremacy of the Empire were challenged, but they will never pledge themselves to support blindly a British Cabinet in the selection of which they have no voice. Theoretically they must be involved in any war upon which Brita in eni ters; nut they might without disloyalty abstain from giving active assistance if the issue were not Imperial. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, as the political head of the oldest and most populous of the Dominions Over the Sea, has simply tried to make that point clear, and we do not think, says the "Lyttelton Times,"'that Sir Joseph Ward or Mr Deakin would be less rea,dy to defend the internal autonomy of the States they represent.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9696, 21 January 1910, Page 4
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130AN IMPERIAL ISSUE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9696, 21 January 1910, Page 4
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