WHAT ARE THE CROWN COLONIES?
“ How many people realise, when they speak of the British Empire, that it is threefold in structure, and is not synonymous with the British Commonwealth of Nations?” asks Major W. E. Simnctt, M.8.E., in the December issue of ‘ The P.L.A. Monthly.’ “ The average citizen, unfortunately,” he goes on to say, “is still, to large extent, ignorant of his colonial heritage. It will probably surprise him to know that it comprises nearly forty separate territories, covers an area, scattered across the five continents and the seven seas, of 3,000,000 square miles (if the Sudan be included) —which is over fifty times that of England and Wales—and has a population of over 60,000,000 people, a far vaster total than that of all the dominions lumped together.
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Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 15
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129WHAT ARE THE CROWN COLONIES? Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 15
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