THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
UNIQUE IN HISTORY.
FEDERATION OF FREE PEOPLE. MAKES FOR PROGRESS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association). (Received May 27, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 26. Britons from every part of the Empire joined in the celebration of Empire Day here. Sir Esme Howard (British Ambassador), at a reception tendered in his honour, said: “Never in the history •of the world has there been any political entity like the British Empire to-day. It is composed of a federation of free people and, however much we may have been criticised in the past, wherever the British Empire has been it has made for the progress of civilisation and the happiness aX the world.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17413, 28 May 1928, Page 7
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