NATIONS OF THE EMPIRE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 8

NATIONS OF THE EMPIRE

THE NEW PRINCIPLE

■SPEECH BY MR CHURCHILL

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(Received Feb. 14,.8* a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13Presiding at the English-speaking Union's dinner to Lord Reading, Mr Churchill said the new principle concerning the Dominions was a "common consultatibn>''regarding the difficulties of any one of them, and no final decision concerning the status of one of the- Empire's nations could be taken "without consulting all the Dominions, who will share with the Motherland the responsibility of the decisions on the great dominant questions affecting •the common fortunes of the whole Empire; The. principle might be found to have usefulness concerning parts of t&e Empire widely, different, as Ireland and Egypt. '.'We all know," he said, "the need of unity as an aid to the solving 'Of our problems."