BRITAIN AND THE DOMINIONS Sit, May I be allowed, through
your kindness, to thank Sir Norman Angell for his article in the November loth issue of The Spectator, especially for the paragraph dealing with the relationship of Britain to the Dominions.
We do not need to cross the Atlantic to find ignorance on the subject. Here in our own country, by quite intelligent people, the slogan about Britain owning a quarter of the globe is still, consciously or unconsciously, accepted. It is con- stantly cropping up in conversation, the pulpit and on the platform. A fine address may wind up with the hope that Britain who owns so much may see her way to give up some of her colonies.
Something should be done to make the public understand that Britain does not own the Dominions. Supporters of the Government seem to forget that the facts in this matter are the strongest practical argument they can bring forward.—
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