Dominion’s Support Appears Assured

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 May 1948, Page 5

Dominion’s Support Appears Assured

Recd. 7.20 n.m. London, May 24 The Dominions have already welcomed the Western Union in principle. They will support it all the more strongly as they see it as a regional organisat'on of a kind which they favour for their own security, says “The Times.” It added: "Security, freedom, expansion—these indeed are marks of the wider union into which the Commonwealth and Western Europe can, and must, go together.”

The “Manchester Guardian" pointed out that General Smuts saw “no insuperable difficulty” in Britain being the leading nation in both the Commonwealth and the Western Union, and added: "His authoritative words should encourage the British Government to go forward for the Western

Union in confidence that she will have, the great Dominions’ support. “The Daily Telegraph” says: General Smuts bel’eves that Britain, as mother of the most successful existing group of free States, has a great human mission still before her. General S.muts has undiminshed faith in a glorious recovery involving no change in the Empire structure.

The Parliamentary correspondent of “The Times" recalls that British Government amendments to the British Nationality Bill, tabled in the House of Commons by the Lord Chancellor. propose that any British subject may be known alternatively as a "Commonwealth citizen.”