COUNTRY EAGER TO LEARN
MR, BALDWIN SOFTENS THE BLOW.
(AUSTIUIUN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received 20th June, 11.30 a.m.) \ „ '. . -LONDON, 19th June. . Mr; Baldwin was the principal guest of the Australian and . New Zealand Luncheon Club. He begged the people overseas not to take last night's Parliamentary vote on preference to mean that they in Britain did not care. He believed th e country was never more eager to learn things about, the Empire. Ho was most forcibly struck, during the debate,. by testimonies ■to that interest which might have been vainly looked for some years ago in Britain. Tho opposition would cordially co-oper-ate with the Government in its expressed desire to carry out one of the most essential things—the spread of the Empire population more evenly in its various parts. ' "' '• ." ■" ■" '■'
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 145, 20 June 1924, Page 7
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130COUNTRY EAGER TO LEARN Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 145, 20 June 1924, Page 7
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