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Churchill/AMEL 1/4 contains:
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12 Empire speeches
13 Empire Tour speeches: South Africa
14 Empire Tour speeches: Australia
15 Empire Tour speeches: New Zealand
16 Empire Tour speeches: Fiji
17 Empire Tour speeches: Canada
18 Empire Tour speeches: notes on duplication of speeches
19 Empire Tour: correspondence and invitations
20 Empire Tour photographs: South Africa
21 Empire Tour photographs: New Zealand
22 Empire Tour photographs
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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title Empire Tour speeches: Canada
Reference AMEL 1/4/17
(former reference: Box 137)
Covering Dates Jan 1928-Feb 1928
Extent and Medium 1 file
Content and context

Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from Canada on subjects including: nationhood, and rights and responsibilities for the Dominions; the development of the Empire; Imperial defence strategy, including cuts in the Army and possible future trouble with the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the success of air power in Iraq and the case for a separate air strategy, the shifting of naval power from the North Sea, the establishment of the Singapore naval base and the break-down of naval disarmament talks with the United States; British achievements during and since the war; trade and Imperial Preference; Canada's development and natural resources; immigration; Imperial Conferences.

Further information

See also AMEL 10 for photos of LSA's Empire Tour, AMEL 6/3/10 for AFA's diary and AMEL 6/3/86 for AFA's letters on the Tour.

Index Terms
Canada
Defence
Speeches
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