IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1923, Page 2

IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION.

EM HIRE. FOREIGN POLKA . RESIDENT MINISTERS WANTED. ["Tttu Times” Service.] (Received this day at 0.15 a.itt.) LONDON. April 5. Mr Pcrlcv. the Cau.ulinn High Commissioner. in an interview in this “Times” on a Common Empire Foreign Policy, said that at first sight the problem "of Imperial Co-operation appears 11 > Lp insoluble because the Dominions wish to preserve their self-governing Mauis. Vet there is a need for a common foreign polity. The only possible solution is more frequent and continuous consultation, and the best method is to have a member of each Dominion Government in Loudon with the understanding that they must meet members of the finperia! Cabined when a question of general concern ari-es. I bus the Dominion Governments would he more fully advised of foreign relations and they would also he a consulting body .similar to a war Cabinet, but without tile latter’s authority. His experience at Geneva and London was that the difficulties of Imperial problems would largely disappear "'hen th i representatives sat at the ‘•nine table. Mr Parley considers a resident Minister is preferable to a. High Commissioner. bet aus'p the former coital approach members of the Cabinet illicit, whereas a High Commissioner was .supposed to approach them through th.< (Mi,mini Offi: e. He agrees with Mr Francis Bell that a resident Minuter tnu-t consult his Government; biu ora ve international complications no not ari-c in live minutes, and such a procedure would have prevented complications over the appeal to the Dominions during the Near East crisis.