LABOUR MINISTER’S REMARKABLE PRONOUNCEMENT
APPREHENSIONS OF OPPONENTS CAUSELESS BAR TO RUSSIAN RECOGNITION A striking speech was delivered by Mr J. H. Thomas, Labour Secretary of State for the Colonies, at the Australia Day luncheon. Mr Thomas declared that the British constitution, broad, wide, and democratic, must be preserved, and the Empire providing it maintained. Patriotism was not a monopoly of the upper classes, he said, and for this reason, despite the great change in the Old Country, the Old Empire would continue to progress. It is reported that recognition of Russia is not proving so easy a matter a? it seemed. For this reason a Commission may have to be disatched to Moscow. The “Daily Herald” characterises the Singapore base scheme as “sailing near the wind in view of the Washington agreement. I tbour is unperturbed at the prospect of Admiralty resignations.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11740, 30 January 1924, Page 5
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