EMPIRE DAY
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(BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDINT, This Day. 'At a patriotic demonstration in connection with Empire Day, Sir Joseph iWa'rd said that we should as a community insist on the Home authorities not treating us as children, as they had done more than ones in the past by not fallowing to. be made public reports by capable men as to the best means of preserving the nations to which we belonged. Secret agreements between nations were more responsible for trouble than if they had all laid their cards on tho table, and let each other know what they 'were doing. Mr. J.. W. Munro, M.P., seconding a I local resolution, stated there was a feel'in*g of doubt,', put forward'for political purposes, .that if,the.Labour Party got into power It would make for the disintegration of 'the British Empire. He gave that an emphatic denial, and gave it denial with responsibility as a member of Parliament and a member of the Labour, Party. . Mr." George Thomson, a' Communist, I (endeavoured to move an amendment, but got no hearing. In the lull of the demonstration against him, Mr. Thomson said that Mr. Munro would regret he , had appeared on the platform at this j jneeting.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 8
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207EMPIRE DAY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 8
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