CROWN AND COMMONWEALTH.
The new Governor-General of Australia, Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, is a man of remarkable intellectual attainments, distinguished career, and strong character, and he will fill the position with ability and dignity. The question is whether it is advisable to appoint an Australian to be representative of the Crown. It is possible that even a man of the Chief Justice's eminence, who has been out of politics for many years, may incur some suspicion of bias in his relations with the Government, and it is easily conceivable that in the future some other appointee may incur more. A Governor-General from England not only is impartial, but impresses the people as being so. Moreover, a Governor-General is much more than ' a mere combination of figurehead and rubber stamp. He represents not only the tradition and unofficial authority of the Crown, which is'the chjef political link of the British Commonwealth, but the Mother Country itself, and all it stands for. No Australian or New Zealander or Canadian, as the case may be, can represent all this so well as a Governor-General from tte hew£ of jiut E»pir§.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 286, 3 December 1930, Page 6
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