"CONSULT THE EMPIRE."
Lord Milner, speaking at the Royal Colonial Institute, said there was another obligation, besides gratitude, wbich the thorough-going espousal of the Imperial cause by the Dominions imposed upon the people of the Mother Country. It was not well to go on taking everything for granted, and it did not follow that because the Dominions had played up so splendidly in the war, which they had no part in declaring, they would be equally ready to en-_ dorse a peace, which they would have had no share in making, and had never been consulted about. Though terms of peace might be a highly unsuitable^ subject for public discussion, they were not only not a suitable but a very necessary subject for •re* flection among our statesmen, and, when reflecting upon them, they could hardly fail to realise the necessity of an exchange of views with the statesmen of the Dominions, which were one and all of them so deeply concerned in the settlement after the war.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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