VITAL ISSUE FOR EMPIRE MEETING
(11 a.m.) LONDON, June 3. Mr. L- Hore-Belisha. a former Secretary for War, in a speech in London suggested that Mr. Churchill and General Smuts should be invited to the forthcoming Commonwealth conference.
He added that the principal question to be settled at the conference was whether the proposal that Britain
should unite with Western Europe was compatible with her role as a leading member of the Commonwealth There was, in fact, no conflict of loyalties involved between the idea of the Western Union and Commonwealth solidarity.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 5
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92VITAL ISSUE FOR EMPIRE MEETING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 5
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