'Our' Dominions
Sir: It typifies the illusions of the anti-Common Market Old Boys that they keep on writing, e.g. in letters to The Spectator, about "Our Dominions.'
We haven't any: haven't had since 1942. But, of course, these people all live in the world of the day before yesterday. Still if they can afford the dollars to go to Canada (they don't take sterling, brother) and get across Quebec alive they will learn that Canada has been an independent country thirty years and has long since dumped the Union Jack.
Very few Aussies have the least regard for the British connection and those few are very old and mainly expatriate. Under the Anzus treaty they are tied to the US. Such feelings for this country as existed once in Asia, Africa and the West Indies were blown sky high by Mr Enoch Powell.
The one dominion we have left is two-thirds of Ulster.
It is getting rather expensive.
George Edinger Devonshire Club, St James's, London SW1
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