STATUS OF ALIENS
BILL DROPPED AS UNWORKABLE BREACH OF UNDERSTANDING WITH DOMINIONS (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, May 19. .In the House, of Lords, Lord Stanliope.in moving tlio second reading of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Bill, said it largely codjfied tho Aot of 1911 and subsequent measures. Ho contended that foreigners ought not to bo admitted while ex-Service men were walking the streets unemployed. The Lord Chancellor declared 1 tho proposals to be wholly unworkable, and that the Bill could not ho amended. Inter alia, it would involve a revolution of the whole system existing cs a result of repeated conferences between the British Dominions Governments; would involve a breach of understanding with tlio Dominions, and would constitute an attempt to legislate for the .Dominions/ within their own territories. This they would undoubtedly resent, and it would bo wholly impossible to give effect to the measure. The Bill was dropped without a. divi-sion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuler,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 202, 21 May 1920, Page 7
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157STATUS OF ALIENS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 202, 21 May 1920, Page 7
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