UNITS OF THE EMPIRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20105, 26 March 1928, Page 7

UNITS OF THE EMPIRE

PARTNERS IN FREEDOM AND FREEDOM IN PARTNERSHIP Received March 26, 1 a.m. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, March 24. Mr L. S. Amery and Sir Granville Ryrie were the chief guests at the Press Club’s Dominions night dinner. Mr Amery said the last Englishman to make such a trip as his, though in the reverse direction, was Sir Francis Drake, who brought back a wonderful story of the romance the new v/orld’s prospects opened up for England. He was not sure that Drake brought bacic more romance than he had seen in the last few months round the world. Each Dominion was much wrapped up in its own history and future destiny, all recognising it was but part of the wider destiny of the Empire. This journey made the end of one period, and the beginning of another — the end of the stage of building up self-government, of which the climax and fruits were seen when all stood together in the great war. Minority tutelage had now ended and they wore working as colleagues, with equal freedom. Never throughout tho tour had he seen or heard anything suggesting this new freedom was conceived as the beginning of disentogration, but it was regarded as a new, sounder and more enduring basis of co-operation. The last imperial Conference took a tremendous act of faith. Tho progress of tho world rested on acts of faith and he believed that this act of faith was justified for the goad and peace of world and the advancement of the British people.