BRITISH EMPIRE: Plans & Progress

Last week King George VI sent his thanks for offers of help in the war to the peoples of the Falkland Islands and the Seychelles; to Grenada and the Windward Islands; to the "Council and Chiefs of the Gold Coast, Ashanti and the Northern Territory and to all members of the community"; and to "all sections of European, Asiatic and African communities of His Majesty's subjects in Nyasaland."

Their support was chiefly moral. But more concrete help was on its way to Great Britain from her farflung Empire. Australia, which already had...

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