THE STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER
Sir -It is to -be hoped that the admirable review by Willis Airey . of New Zealand and the Statute of Westminster, will be very widely readespecially his comments on Professor Leslie Lipson’s contribution. That Britain and America "will definitely cling together" is a very dangerous assumption indeed. The War of Independence I have read, is still being fought in every school in the U.S.A. The wellknown publicist, J. L. Hodson, wrote from St. Louis, to the Spectator (17/3/44) that a soldier said to him: "It begins in our schools. Every year we have the revolution over againyou're the red-coats-King George III. is resurrected-you’re the traditional enemy." When he lunched with a group of distinguished business and professional men in Chicago, a banker said: "I hope we are going ta co-operate. But you’d be wise to regard us as a ee
question mark-you can’t count on us." Hodson adds: "I think he spoke the mind of the rest to a considerable degree." The astonished indignation of Wendell Willkie-firm co-operator in fighting the Germans-at the "worldshaking" statement of Mr. Churchill, that he did not propose to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire, might well give pause even to so cheery an optimism as Professor Lipson’s.
F.A.
C.
(Mapua).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 274, 22 September 1944, Page 5
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212THE STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 274, 22 September 1944, Page 5
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