MR. HUGHES IN LONDON
RECEIVES FREEDOM OF THE CITY THE MEANING OF THE EMPIRE. {Received April 19, 1 p.m.) : LONDON, 18th April.' Mr. W. M. Hughes was presented at the Guildhall with the Freedom of the City. In responding, he dwelt entirely on the Empire question., He referred to the urgency of creating conditions under which the population of Britain and the Dominions should rapidly increase and develop our enormous resources. He said:—"The war has plunged civilisation into an inferno, has. saturated the earth with the blood of our sons, and has brought sorrow, into their homes; but it has welded the scattered nations of the Empire into a united people." When he spoke of the Empire, he said, he did not mean Territorial expansion, or of tho increase of wealth, but the far wider opportunities for developing free government, and economic and social conditions worthy of a great people, and compatible with the integrity of an, Empire, which shall ensure to tho peaceful nations of the earth absolute security from disturbers of the worlds-peace. That was what the Empire and its maintenance meant. . He concluded by speaking of the necessity for defending the Empire as its responsibility for the world's peace, for civilisation, and for the future of democracy depended upon our ability to do so.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 93, 19 April 1916, Page 8
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