IF COLONIES ARE CEDED
WHAT USE IN WAR?
LORD SANKEY'S QUESTION
(Received March 30, 11.10 a.m.)
LONDON, March 29,
In the course of a paper read before the Royal, Society entitled, "What Is the British Empire?" Lord Sankey dissented from the idea that the Balfour Declaration of 1926 was a diplomatic gesture of which lawyers had made something that was never intended. It was the logical outcome of the policy of statesmanship the continuance of which was to keep the Empire together and ensure that its members should stand side by side in any great test for future existence.
Discussing the demand that tne colonial position should be equalised by surrenders to have-nots, Lord Sankey said: "The unconditional surrender of any of our colonies is not a question of practical politics. Another plan would be to remove restrictions and enable the have-nots to obtain what they want. The question of what use should be mado of a ceded colony in the event of a future war must receive careful consideration, and Britain is entitled to an answer on that point."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 10
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