IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2805, 24 June 1916, Page 9

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

HIGH COMMISSIONERS' VIEWS. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, June 22. Mr. Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner for Australia; interviewed regarding an Imperiar Conference after tho war, said .nothing was more necessary for: the well-being of the' Empire. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commis-, sioner for New Zealand, said that tho permanency of '■ Empire . was contingent upon giving effect to "a wider Imperial Government. It would be absurd to leave the whole foreign policy, possibly involving war and trade treaties, in the hand of the Executive'of'.a Parliament elected by one portion of tho Empire'. The Dominions did not desire to make suggestions concerning , Ireland, but be always held that the solving l of the Imperial conception ought to settle the Irish problem. If the great Imperial body was as representative as it should be, it would give Ireland a proportionate • voice, retaining for her as for the rest of the Empire, subject to. modification, the control of her own affairs.. In any reconstruction of the Empire, the. overseas dominions will' undoubtedly te T , quire a' proportionate voice in foreign affairs. Sir. -Thomas . Mackenzie added that the Motherland would still domin- - ate the situation. ' 1 ■ ■