ENGLISH HISTORY
“I have seen whole files of official dispatches from Colonial Governors sold by auction, and military and navy deports of considerable interest. It seems to me that no holder of such stuff has a good title to it, or a right to dispose of it as private property. The State has surely the right to intervene and to reclaim objects wrongly alienated. Supposing 'Captain Blood had successfully stolen the Crown of England—as he attempted to do in the reign of Charles ll—and had conveyed it to his 1 heirs, so that it turned up in private hands in 1926 for sale in London; who would doubt that it could lie reclaimed at once by the State? And on that analogy I hold that al State documents of interest and importance wrongfully removed from the custody of the 'State shquld be regarded as State property and rescued the moment thqt their identity is established.” —'Sir Charles Oman, Chichele Professor of History, Oxford University.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 7
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164ENGLISH HISTORY Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 7
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