THIN END OF THE WEDGE.
TO POLITICAL ANNEXATION. LORD MILNER’S STRAIGHT TALK. Lord Milner expresses the hope that the Canadian opponents of the reciprocity agreement will stick to their guns. He is not sure that those who conducted the negotiations on behalf of Canada realised 1 what they were letting themselves in for. Political annexation, declares Lord Milner, is undoubtedly contemplated by a, large section of the American people, and the present agreement was only the thin end' of the wedge. Lord Milner went on to say that those Canadians who were opposing the treaty were entitled to the sympathy of all Imperialists throughout the world 1 .
“I believe,” he added, “that harmony between Britain and the United States is more likely to be maintained by art understanding as two great equal Powers than by the success of a policy of disintegrating the Empire for the United States to pick up some of the fragments.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3218, 15 May 1911, Page 3
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155THIN END OF THE WEDGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3218, 15 May 1911, Page 3
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