BONDS OF EMPIRE
FREEDOM AND CROWN
PLACE OV SERVICE LEAGUE
(United Press Association.—Copyright.} LONDON/ 11th June. The Prince of Wales, rushing from Devonshire, presided at the Empire Service League dinner, and proposing the toast of the delegates, described the league as ihe biggest British institution. Wherever his travels "had taken him, the most memorable welcome and hospitality invariably had been from ex-service men. Mr. G. Dyctt (Australia) responded and alluded to the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York as continuing the great -work undertaken by the Prinea. of Wales. Mr. Churchill said that freedom and the Crown were the only bond the peoples of the Empire would accept. "Talk to Australians, New Zealariders, Canadians, or South Africans about tha British House of Commons, and they; snap their fingers and laugh, but to th« ancient Crown all owe the allegianca that cornea from a sense of actual BOj^»
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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149BONDS OF EMPIRE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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