Empire Foreign Policy.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1923, Page 3

Empire Foreign Policy.

SIR .JAMES A1.1.E.V.S VIEWS. [ "Tin: Times” Si-hick e. j LONDON April b. Interviewed, regarding Mr IVidey'H'anadian High Cnmmi-> iutmr) -ugg stion. Sir \ IDii -aid his personal umdlii ia! opinion was that a bettor -y-tein of r.insulin ng the Dominions was absolutely no iry and inevitable The great Dominion:, Mould not t on-"tit to iml -finit iv tommit t Itent--rive- to a foreign icdne in whirl] lint 1 had no voice. T'm -tutu- < J t lie 11 igh (dmin i-s font r might lu li I' • i d advan--1 tig: oil'll because at lire cut the;, do not ret eive uHicial reogn it am from : h British (oivarntiiein. But the hlan,' doe- not In with the I ntpi ria I ant liie’itis >. l.ci a il-e the I)om inioii ( lovcril ment s .should request fuller com r-'-inn ; and rights for their representative. However lm could not -a n how n resident Mii'-ter could maintain itmtaet better than a, high Commissioner. Mr I’erley’s -uggcsi.ioii that, a Dominion reprasentat ive should s]: old part pi the vear in his own Dominion, may he practicable for Canada. Imt utterly out of the question lor the more di-tuut Dominium'. and ha-iilcs. Dominion minitii 's do nol mean pernmiient institutions. and it i- uiide-irable to (bangs' t heir repro.-eu Ia t ive lu I undon with, eicrv ( hinge of Government.