IMPERIAL PEACE CABINET

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 9

IMPERIAL PEACE CABINET

MEETING OF PREMIERS COMMON POLICY ON IMPORTANT MATTERS By Teleiraph—Press ■ imodatlOD—CopyrUbt : London, November 18. A statement is 'published in tho Lon? don "Times" lOiat the meeting of Dominion Prime Ministers in London in June, 1921, will "be tho beginning of a deiinito system' of Empire' government in peaco tiir.e, under which an Imperial Peace Cabinet will be tho governing body of tlie Empiro. Tlie Australian Press Association learns on the highest official authority that tho statement goes very much beyond tlio terms of tlio announcements 'by tho Prime. Minister and Mr. Bonar Law in the Houao of Commons. The meeting will bo on ihe lines of tho Imperial War Cabinet meetings of 1917' and 191 S. It will be remembered that the Prime Minister stated at the time that lie hoped and expected- that thise Tneetinus would become, the accepted convention of the British limpire. The result of these meetings was not, however, to set up ft common executivo of the Empire, nor in any way, to affect the executive authority of each Government or its responsibility to its »\rti Parliament, They were held vith tho object of arriving at a common policy on nutters of urgency and importance to all, by frank and intimato discussion. The forthcoming meeting of Prime Ministers will be of tlie same character. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.