At a luncheon given on Tuesday at the House of
Commons -to Mn Andrew Fisher, the new High Commissioner for the At a luncheon given on Tuesday at the House of Commons -to Mn Andrew Fisher, the new High Commissioner for the
Commonwealth, Mr. Balfour said that he had met men who had seen fighting in many parts of the world, who had seen the slaughter on the Western front of the great battlefield, and he had heard them say that the world had never seen and had never even conceived fighting greater than that shown by the Australian and New Zealand Divisions at Anzac. Those were immortal memories. They brought home to us in a quite unforgettable shape what the unity of the Empire meant. Mr. Fisher replied that those who had ever entertained a doubt about the unity of the Empire did not know the Dominions. Colonel Abbott said that Englishmen had joined his own Australian battalion for training purposes in Gallipoli. Mr. Balfour then added that Colonel Abbott's words should never be forgotten. Englishmen, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, and South Africans should fight not merely together, but mingled in the same battalions.
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