HELP FOR THE COLONIES
RUGBY, January 15. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonel Oliver Stanley, speaking at Leeds, said Britain could play its part after the war only as part of the British Commonwealth of Nations and not by standing m lsolah°?n the colonies there are 60,000,000 people, and our ability to play an effective part of the world is going to depend to no small extent on whether we have a prosperous and contented colonial empire/1 he said. He added that Britain must put her hand into her own pocket. Only by that means was there any possibility of real development of the colonial empire politically, socially, and economically. They must advance on all three lines together. We have to train the colonies for internal self-government within the British Empire. v "We cannot do it with a stroke of a wand. Nothing is more fatal than to make a constitutional advance when the people are not fitted for it,"—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1944, Page 5
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162HELP FOR THE COLONIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1944, Page 5
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