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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 21, No. 3. April 1, 1958

The Empire

The Empire

What are these "Empire" Games the papers are full of? The majority of the competitors in the games will come not from Britain's colonial empire but from a number of independent states. The term "Empire" or even "British Empire" will be truly offensive to the competitors from the newly independent states that will be represented. The correct title of the unity between these states is, as India's Mrs. Menon, who recently visited New Zealand, pointed out, the Commonwealth, not even the British Commonwealth. Let us then talk of the Commonwealth Games and remember that this is the second half of the twentieth century and not the nineteenth.

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