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Sir Robert Sidney Foster, dit Robin Foster, né à Londres le 11 août 1913 et mort le 12 octobre 2005,, est un administrateur colonial britannique, devenu ensuite le premier gouverneur général des Fidji indépendantes en 1970. Wikipedia

✵ 11. août 1913 – 12. octobre 2005

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Robert Sidney Foster: Citations en anglais

“On the 10th day of October, Fiji achieved nationhood in the fullest sense of that term. There was no declaration of independence on her part, since independence was freely given. There was simply a grateful acceptance of the independence that was offered, and a dedication to the tasks that lay ahead and she became the master of her own destiny and assumed her place in the world family of Nations.”

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Robert Sidney Foster

Address opening Fiji's first parliamentary session as an independent nation (excerpts)

“In the lives of nations some occasions possess a unique character. Surely this, the opening of the Independent Fiji's first Parliament, is one of them.”

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Robert Sidney Foster

Address opening Fiji's first parliamentary session as an independent nation (excerpts)