CEMENTING THE BOND
ENGLAND AND THE DOMINIONS. GENERAL BIRDWOOD ON MIGRATION. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cabb Association.) LONDON, January 23. Speaking at a luncheon given by the Overseas League, which was attended by official representatives of all the dominions, General Sir William Birdwood, referring to the dominions, said they preferred to regard the sea as uniting, and not dividing, the Empire. He said that he hoped no false ideas of economy would lead to a reduction of the Navy. He emphasised that the greatest crop that the dominions could produce was a crop of British children. He went on to urge that migration should be fostered among men of high education and intelligence, with a wide perspective. The labourer emigrant was apt to lose touch with the Old Country, while men of education and imagination would be better able to spread the doctrine of what the dominions are doing among the people of the Mother Land. Therefore he advocated the dominions appointing special officers to foster migration from the public schools.
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Southland Times, Issue 19459, 26 January 1925, Page 5
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173CEMENTING THE BOND Southland Times, Issue 19459, 26 January 1925, Page 5
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