SERVICE LEAGUE

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1927, Page 7

SERVICE LEAGUE

NOTABLE SPEECHES. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, June 11. At. the Empire Service League dinner, Earl Haig said that there was no better battalion commander in France than Mr Churchill, who if he had wanted it, would have been in his (Haig’s) high position. The Prince of Wales, rushing from Devonshire, presided at the dinner, and proposing the toast of the delegates, described the League as the biggest British institution. Wherever his travels had taken him, the most memorable welcome and hospitality bad invariably been from the ex-ser-vice men. '* General Dyett (Australia) responded. He alluded to the Yorks’ visit, as continuing the great work undertaken by the Prince of Wales. Mr Churchill said that the freedom and the Crown were the only bond the peoples of the Empire would accept.. “Talk, to Australian’s and New Zealanders, Canadians and South Africans about the British House of Commons and they snap their fingers and laugh, but to the ancient Crown, all owe allegiance. That comes from sense of actual possession.” CO-OPERATION WITH U.S.A. LONDON, June 11. At the Empire Service League Conference, Colonel Nangle, of New Foundland, opposing a motion in fafour of co-operation with American comrades, declared it was wrong to imagine that the United States was an Anglo-Saxon nation. There was only 12 to 19 per cent, of its people Anglo Saxon. “America is not pro-British. Slie only raised the question of limitation of naval armaments, because the increased 18 inches in beam of their ships, would make it impossible for them to traverse the Panama Canal, and would force the United States to keep separte Atlantic and ’ Pacific fleets.” The resolution was carried.