EMPIRE AND PARLIAMENT
"On two occasions recently," writes a correspondent in the Daily Telegraph, "his Highness the Yuvaraja of Mysore has addressed in London a distinguished audience composed of ambassadors, dominion agents, and members of the House of Lords in words which, had they been spoken in the House of Lords, would have been front-page news. Many members of Parliament present have deplored the" flaw in our Constitution which could' be remedied by the dominions having representatives in both Houses— ; agents-general in the Commons and high commissioners in the Lords, andj.™ of course, some princes of India. The idea is as" old as Cromwell; a claim to this kind of representation was put forward then by the West Indies, notably Jamaica and Trinidad. Geneva is the only place where the dominion representatives meet regularly face to face—but why should they not in London, if Westminster is really the heart of Empire? "
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24205, 25 January 1940, Page 10
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