FOREIGN POLICY
RELATIONS OF BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
DEFENCE CO-OPERATION (Roc. 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. The House of Commons debate on Commonwealth relations, especially as they affect foreign policy and defence, brought from the Parliamentary Secretary of the Dominions Office, Mr. Bottomley, a reiteration of the view that there was no need for unification within the Commonwealth.
Mr. Bottomley said: “There was never-any question of- unification. Common ideals and purpose keep us together. Spontaneous co-operation, in fact, has been our strength.”
A Labour member, Mr. Martin, initiated the debate by saying that a Commonwealth of Nations spread over all parts of the world was a most vulnerable political unit. Mr. Granveille (Liberal) proposed the abolition of the Dominions and Colonial Offices and the establishment of a Commonwealth consultative council. He said that decentralisation of lhe industrial war potential was the key to’ the defence question. The Committee for Imperial Defence needed to be enlarged. Britain should bo tackling lhe development of tank and aircraft produe Lion in the
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1946, Page 6
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