STRAIGHT SPEAKING.
DOMINIONS AND BRITAIN
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT
LONDON, Nov. 11. Sir Auckland Geddes, in an outspoken address at the English-speak-ing Union, said the Dominions spoke of Britain as the Motherland. The term was affectionate in its intention, and gave a feeling of old age, if not senility. America exercised an influence on the Dominions in the way British influence affected. America. It often happened, when the Dominions looked to Britain and found no sympathetic answer or understanding, that they then looked to Washington and found their difficulties in many cases better understood there than in Downing Street.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 November 1924, Page 5
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