DOMINIONS AS ALLIES.
■ NOT SIMPLY DEPENDENTS." j LONDON, May 11. lord Derby (Minister for War), siieakim: at .South Kensington to-day, B l j( , .'. lt would be undei'-cstimating the number to say that we have eleven ! -uiics. 'because we can no longer look upon the Common wealth and Dominions as simply dependents of Great Britain. They arc. the firmest allies that any country couhl have. What keeps them togetheri Not Downing Street or politicians. Politicians come and go. What dues keep them together is the- monarchy and the King to whom this country and our great dependencies look, and rightly look, as the proper head of our great country."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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