INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 11

INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS

LINES OF PROCEDURE AT CONFERENCE MISUNDERSTANDINGS REMOVED NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER PLEASED AT RESULT As a result of the frank discussions at the Imperial Conference the assurance is given that inter-imperial re- . lations will emerge stronger and that the misunderstandings which have caused rumblings since the 1923 conference have been entirely removed. It is declared that Mr. Bruce and Mr. Coates are most pleased at the way things have shaped.

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(Rec. November 18, 5.5 p.m.)

London. November 17. Official circles to-night expressed the belief ’ that the Imperial Conference would definitely end on Tuesday. It is highly probable . that General Ilertzog will be aboard ship going home on Wednesday. Leading Dominion representatives to-night, replying to a question, said General Ilertzog undoubtedly would go home a happy man, with a freer and clearer vision of the Empire. It is suggested that- a revelation of the manner in which the Premiers handled the problems of inter-Impenal relations and treaty formalities will perhaps be indicated after the plenary meeting on Saturday. An idea of the lines of procedure is contained in a Semi-official hint to-night. “There is nothing constitutional. We merely have been taking things which happened in the past, linking ends together, ironing out little blemishes, and clipping’ frayed edges.” This has been the keynote of recent speeches bv Mr. Amery’and Sir Austen Chamberlain. It is not disclosing a secret to say that Messrs. Bruce and Coates were most pleased at the way things have shaped. A fear that is exercising the minds of members of the Conference is that the inescapable necessity of Issuing a mass of conclusions on Monday and Tuesdav next will cause a blurred impression of what has been achieved, but everybody is most confident that as the facts are seized by politicians and the thinking public there will arise the deepest satisfaction that Imperial relations will emerge, stronger and that the misunderstandings which have caused rumblings since the 1923 Conference have been entirely removed. (Rec. November 18, 7.55 p.m.) London, November 17. Mr. Amery, addressing the Women’s Conservative Society, said he believed the Imperial Conference more fully than any of its predecessors had arrived at a frank and clear understanding of mutual equality and of the fact that their future co-operation assumed that the principle of no question of domination on one side or subordination on the

other entered into the discussion. ' He personally regarded future co-opera-tion as assured.

COMMITTEE WORK NEARLY COMPLETED (Rec. November 18, 7.55 p.m.) London, November 17. There was not a plenary session of the Imperial Conference to-day. Com’tnittees dealt with the questions of nationality and British policy in the Antarctic. ’ The Economic Sub-committee lias completed its report on films, and practically exhausted its agenda. All committee work is expected to be finshed by the week-end. Following on the visit to Cardington, the Air Communications Committee is ready to draft its report. The Conference will probably end on Tuesday. DELEGATES ENTERTAINED BY ROYALTY London, November 17. At the Prince of Wales’s dinner tonight, the guests included the Duke and Duchess of York, Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. Amery, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. Coates, Sir Francis and Miss Bell. Later the guests attended the Duke and Duchess of York’s evening party at St. James’s Palace. There was a brilliant assembly of SOO. VISIT TO EDINBURGH ' (Rec. November 18, 8.25 p.m.) London, November 18. Mr. Bruce and Mr. Coates will accompany other Premiers to Edinburgh on November 21, going'thence to Glasgow, where the new cruisers will be inspected.