THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
"TIES THAT BIND." ' ARTICLE BY SIR GEORGE REID. Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received October 6, 12.30 p.m.) LONIX>N, October o. f; Sir George Reid, in an article in the Evening News," states: "For many !, years to come any attempt to estabi fish an Imperial Parliament worthy of i the name would be rejected. It has " been my life-long conviction that the .ties now binding tho subjects of the King and Emperor cannot be radically f changed without infinite care, because [' the present loose condition of things ; iworks well on the whole. ; "The Imperial Parliament is a noble v idea, bnt before accepting it as an ideal the question of practicability Lawust be considered. For every white |iirahject of the King and Emperor there f"a§o six coloured. The problem of legis- I [ Hating is one of great complexity, and j | practically impossible, as the races m'o ■ in different stages of evolution, and formal ties do not count half as much > | a? sentimental j
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11511, 6 October 1915, Page 6
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