"The Dominions could not exist if it were not for the British Navy. We must not forget this. We are a united Empire or we are nothing."
— Billy Hughes

January 1, 1970

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Speech to the Imperial Conference of 1921, quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (Eyre Methuen, 1972), p. 177