IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 220, 11 June 1921, Page 7

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

CONSTITUTION AND LIMITATIONS DISCUSSED AMENDMENT URGED By Telegraph—Preas Association— Copyright (Ree. June 10, 11.30 p.m.) London, June 10. Tho “Daily Telegraph,” discussing the constitution and limitations of the Imperial Conference, saye: “There is no Parliament or electorate to whom th® conference can be made answerable. It is hardly possible to apportion the precise responsibility, for though the Dominion Premiers are consulted and given confidential information the executive authority remains with the British Ministry, subject to the control of the Bouse of Commons. The machinery for joint action regarding naval defence, foreign policy, end inter-imperial trade is loose and clumsy, and ought to be amended, provided the amendment does not abridge the rights of local self-deter-mination, which the overseas coram unities will not abandon.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INVITATION TO DR. BUTLER DENIED. (Rec. June 10. 9.55 p.m.) London, June 9. The conference secretariat emphatically denv the report that Dr. Entity, president of Columbia University, had been invited to address the Imperial Conference on federal constitutions or any subject. . , Mr. Massey says the statement is enviously unfounded, because nobody is entitled to address the conference except on the invitation of the. conference, which is yet not constituted—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.