U.K. Withdrawal From Commonwealth Urged
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Jan. 5. The Conservative British weekly magazine, the “Spectator,” has called on Britain to withdraw from the Commonwealth. In an editorial on the forthcoming conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in London, the magazine says: “The organisation has been reduced to an old boys’ club, whose most enthusiastic members are those who found it hardest to adjust to the world outside. “For a country like Australia. which has been rapidly transforming itself in accord
with its geographical surroundings, the Commonwealth I? becoming a bore“For Britain and many Afro-Asian members, it is an opiate—in Britain’s case, a baneful one. “It is having serious effects on Britain’s foreign, financial and home policies. “. . . Among other things, the Commonwealth has become one of the major incentives to racial intolerance in Britain. “So what we must do is act on the very threat that many of our partners have used against us so successfully in the past. “We should withdraw our i membership.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31879, 6 January 1969, Page 11
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