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Now that oratorical declarations of loyalty are over, the important question emerges: Can the dominions and colonies of the British Empire make a significant contribution to the struggle which they have made their own? For not one of the dominions has a war machine comparable even with the second-rate machine Poland was able to put in the field; not one of the colonies has a military organization approaching that developed by dictator Benito Mussolini in his African possessions. For the next six months or so England will receive little aid of any value from the empire. Indeed, it will find the empire a liability.