...Federation " in the Australian Worker, January and February, 1917. (cc) Cf. General Smuts: — "I thinK the very expression ' Empire' is misleading, because...is an Empire. B.ut we are a system •of nations. WP are not 'a State, but a community of States and nations. We are far greater than any Empire which...

...last paragraph says, ' by the several governments ' of the empire." And again, on another occasion, " we are a system of nations. We are not a state, but a community of states and nations." On the other hand there is a group of federalists who urge that the only stable union that can be established...