" OFFENSIVE IGNORANCE."
Mil HARCOURT AND. EMPIRE -DAY
LONDON, May 28
Mr Malcolm, M.P., "speaking at a meeting of the Junior Imperial League at Croydon on . . sjatuirday, said that Mr Asquith and the members : o£ the Cabinet professed not to know "the" ''purpose of, Empire Day. There was, he went on, no need for the {government to- boast of its ignoi-ancc. That/- bad been apparent for a long while.' He "hoped -that Mr L. V. Harcourt, Secretary of State .for tho Colonies, would, .■apologise to the overseas dominions i'6r--ms calculated and offensive ignorance. ..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13092, 4 June 1913, Page 8
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