IMPERIAL CABINET.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16252, 1 July 1918, Page 7

IMPERIAL CABINET.

MR MASSEY'S VIEWS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Keuter's Telegrams.) LONDON, June 28. Mr Massey, in an interview, said: —"By those meetings the .Imperial War Cabinet is practically framing a constitution that will go on improving, developing, and broadening down from precedent to precedent for centuries to come, thus giving British citizens in tho Dominions the right to representation in Imperial affairs, to which they ar«3 indisputably entitled. They have never before had a say, and now foi' the first time they are placed on equality with the United Kingdom. As the sittings continue possibilities of improvement will be taken advantage of* There is no doubt in my mind that when tho war ends the Imperial Cabinet will continue. I believe arrangements will bo made for an annual session. I think the principal Dominions will have resident Ministers here, sitting as members of the Imperial Cabinet. New Zealand has not considered tho question of having a Minister here for tlie duration of the Wdr as Canada has,' and as it is suggested Australia may do. The duties of a resident Minister would be more political than commercial. Tho High Commissioner would doubtless remain as the representative on the business side. It is essential that the political representative should be a member of the Government of the Dominion he represents. So far as I am able to judge, tho British Ministers and leading statesmen are favourable to ray view, and are propared to allow tho Dominions full say in all Imperial matters. This proposal would not interfere* with my conception of Imperial Federation."

LONDON, June 28. Mr Massey voted in the election for sheriffs for the City of Tiondon—probably tho first Dominion Primo Minister to exorcise such a right as a freeman.