EMPIRE CONCURRENCE IN CHANGE
CHOICE OF ALTERNATIVE TITLES (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. All the Dominion Prime Ministers cordially agreed with the proposal to remove “Dominion Affairs” from the title of the Secretary of State, and once that was agreed, the choice of the new title lay between ‘‘Commonwealth Affairs” and “Commonwealth Relations,” says the Parliamentary correspondent of “The Times.” Most of the Dominions preferred the latter title. The correspondent says that there was a suggestion that Canada and New Zealand might in future cease to style themselves “Dominions.” The Union of South Africa and the Commonwealth of Australia afford examples of alternative titles, but any changes of this kind will not alter the fundamentals of the constitution of the British Commonwealth of Nations, whose States, in the words of the Statute of Westminister. are “united by a common allegiance to the Crown.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25227, 4 July 1947, Page 7
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