IMPERIAL FEDERATION
LORD MILNER'S VIEW, WHAT THE WAR MAY BRING FORTH. Prewi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 18. (Received Nov. 18, at 9.55 p.m.) Lord Milner, speaking at King's College, said he was painfully conscious that-the Empire question had hitherto not attracted the masses, while the working classes had even evidenced hostility; but the war had awakened public opinion to the fact that empire did not mean militarism, but organic union of the free peoples of the Empire. It appealed more to the colonies than to the Motherland. The tremendous heat and strength of feeling evolved by the war provided the greatest, iperhaps the only, opportunity for doing something decisive. He added: "We will find ourselves after the war forced up against the ImperiaJ problem. IfWve work the stubborn Empire material into a new organic body it will be some compensation for the terrible sufferings of the war."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16545, 19 November 1915, Page 4
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