THE BRITISH TRADITION.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Sydnev ( haniber of Commerce last wp-'l\ the president. Mr. G. A. Parkes, said.People had been fond of talking for some years after the war of England's decadence. but to-day they found her, as she so long been, leader of peoples and nations The English Parliament wag still the model of all Pilch institutions, the English was still mistress of the seas. Eondon was ."till the financial centre or tlie world. But the Kmpne was being insidiously attacked mities. in India, in Australia ..iid ::i Wu- Z.iland. Communism was endeavor. ro disrupt the Empire. whi._h "tood .1 bulwark between civilisation and chaos. But these madmen should remember that 08 per cent of t.he stock in Ai:s»tialia w.js British, and, although a Briton whs nol.oi iously slow to rise, he would ( ling to the traditions, the monuments, the .ichie\ ement.g of his race through all stress arid stoim. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1928, Page 4
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