CALL OF PATRIOTISM.
..Speaking :at the annual.■ meeting of-'tlie League.of the Empire; at Caxtoh Hall, Westminster, ; Sir-;G.-Parker-moved, a resolution ■.acknowledging .the honour done to the league' by' the : Govcrninents of the British Empire in appointing representatives to the federal conference on education. Tho league was formed for the purpose of drawing together ;and co-ordinating interests of many kinds, chiefly educational interests and correlated patriotic'-interests', into onn common expression of vitality and activity; He' had .always eombated; anything like' proviriaialism ; or the lirovinoial' point" of view, and fhht was, why ,fje, ungrudgingly';-supported.' such organisa'tioiis as the' Leagnj, of '.the,-Empire., ..There ■liad 'b'eftn'.joaloiisies'between ..'colonies—New 'South Wales' calling '.Viotoria the' cabbago garden, and so on—but: a: new'.feeling was. rising ,np in every : part. of. th'e Empire: Everywhere'they, could see hot the r mere: glimmer, of tho' dawn, but the. broadening light;of a, better and,, larger day, of appre-. .eiatipii of tho difficulties that affected, each; portion of the Empire in its' separate, do-; velopment— of ■ nppreointion of the , motives;, that should draw all the colonies of, the Em-' pire together.in a large attempt to'.niako theEmpiro worthy of its foundation. Tho 'resolution was carried unanimously. .' Sir' .5- Pollock,' who .presided,' expressed liimsojf as hopeful of the Rinalgaination '.of r their body with tho Victoria League .''';■!■',
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 10
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211CALL OF PATRIOTISM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 10
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