A CHINESE LOOKS AT OUR EMPIRE
. “ The development of the British Empire was unprecedented in mankind’s history, and certainly such an Empire could not be held together merely bv an absence of logic. In the hands of any other nation, the British Empire would have fallen by its own weight, for the problem of holding an Empire from Australia to Canada together would have taxed the most statesmanlike minds. Only . the English mind could have solved it, and it did so by inventing the British Commonwealth.' The British'Commonwealth is actually a League of Nations, with the difference that it is a League of Nations that really works. The English people are probably unaware that it is a League of Nations, for they have the knack of doing a thing without knowing what it is. I don’t know how the English people discovered the formula, but somehow or other they have discovered it or stumbled into it by their sheer common sense and capacity for adjustment to realities.”—Dr Lin YuTang, in a speech at Shanghai.
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Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 2
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174A CHINESE LOOKS AT OUR EMPIRE Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 2
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