EMPIRE BROTHERHOOD
GENUINE FRATERNITY CRYING NEED TO-DAY (By Telegraph—Press Association! WELLINGTON, 21st September. Speaking at the Overseas League reception Lord Bledisloe said that the League was based on sentiment, the ideal of Empire brotherhood. The sentiment of Europe with all its implications was entirely wholesome and praiseworthy. “Let us rally round the Union Jack,” he said. “But let us not he content with merely waving it, leaving others to keep it flying at the masthead.” The crying need of tlie Empire to-day was genuine and unshakable fraternity, founded upon mutual ■ knowledge, trustfulness and deep consciousness of identity of interest, riiaterial and spiritual. Tiie responsibility which rested upon the whole Anglo-Saxon race and upon thie peoples oi tlie British Empire was enormous. Could they but realise it their strength was at least equivalent to their responsibility. With all the little points of difference between the different parties of the Empire they belonged, so to speak, to the same great mountain range. At present envy, fear and hate were forming heavy clouds, which hid the spirit of love, but these clouds could not last for ever. They could help to dissipate them by radiating human sympathy, butressed by consciousness of the power and lofty ideals of their race.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 24 September 1934, Page 6
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206EMPIRE BROTHERHOOD Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 24 September 1934, Page 6
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