Commonwealth ‘Has Role’
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, September 30. .The post-war British Commonwealth must become a vehicle for mutual well being and. the reduction of racial tensions, Lord Glendevon said today.
Lord Glendevon, who is a chairman of the Council of the Royal Commonwealth Society was speaking at a luncheon given by the society at its'Sydney headquarters. He is a grandson of Lord Hopetoun, the first GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia.
“Many people, particularly Indians, believe that there has been a growing indifference in Britain to the idea of the Commonwealth, but- this is quite untrue,” Lord Glendevon said. “There was nothing cynical or discriminatory in pur attitude. We may have been perplexed, but never uninterested. “After all, since the war, the Commonwealth has become completely new and the majority of its members were not members of the old Commonwealth. ’ “I think what may have appeared to be indifference was actually a tendency to bend over backwards in trying not to seem the old-time boss. “We have maybe overdone this a little and we should now come out more strongly for the Commonwealth ideas we believe in,” said Lord Glendevon.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 12
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