AUSTRALIA’S POLICY
AT IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH.'
IV CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —<!OPYRidHT MELBOURNE, Sept, 2.
The Rt. Hon. S" M. Bruce, in a final address in support of the referenda proposals - prior to his departure for London, referred' to bis mission to the Imperial Conference. He said he proposed, in the name of the people of Australia, to make the first plank of his policy in London that Australia- shall remain an integral part of the great world-wide British nation. He enlarged upon the necessity for Empire union and for developing th© Commonwealth. He declared that the public opinion of the world 1 ii» years to come would not tolerate what, will assuredly seem to the world a- dog-in-the-manger policy. The only way to avoid such a! judgment was to convince the other nations Ijeyorid doubt that there was only one people capable of ’ building up* a great and 1 prosperous national life in this continent,-and that is the Australians themselves. We had l to prove ourselves a worthy component of the Empire. '•
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 September 1926, Page 5
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