EFFECT ON EMPIRE OF ADMISSION OF NEW DOMINIONS
LONDON, October 8.
The influential weekly newspaper, the Economist, on the eve of the Dominion Prime Minister’s Conference, says “Nobody has stopped to inquire what effects the admission of the three Asiatic Dominions, India, Pakistan, and Ceylon, is to have on the Commonwealth.
“The new Dominions will not be prepared to stay in the Commonwealth on the same terms are the old Dominions. India wishes to be a republic. All the Asiatic Dominions will probably demand independent national status for their citizens. “If the Crown and common citizenship go, what is left of the Commonwealth? Do the Dominion Governments, now there are seven of them, get all the secret telegrams they used to get when there were only four?”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1948, Page 6
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