ENDS ON TUESDAY

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 7

ENDS ON TUESDAY

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE “FUTURE CO-OPERATION ASSURED” “HERTZOG A HAPPY MAN” Br Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 18. In official circles last night the belief was expressed that the Imperial Conference will definitely end on Tuesday. It is highly probable that General Hertzog will be aboard a ship, going home on Wednesday. Leading Dominion representatives to-night, in replying to a question, said General Hertzog undoubtedly will K° home a happy man, with a free and clearer vision of the Empire. It is suggested that the manner in which the Prime Miniver handled the problems of inter-Imfcerial relations and treaty formalities will ■ perhaps be indicated after the plenary meeting oil Saturday. An idea of the lines of procedure is contained in a semi-official hints “There- is nothing constitutional. We have merely been taking things which happened in the past, linking the ends together, ironing out little blemishes.

and clipping frayed edges.” This has been the keynote of recent speeches ,by Mr Leopold Amery and Sir Austen Chamberlain. It is not disclosing a secret to say that Mr 'Bruce and Mr Coates are most pleased at the way things have shaped. A MASS OF CONCLUSIONS. The 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 Tuesday 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 t|iero will arise a very deep satisfaction that Imperial relations will emerge stronger, and that the misunderstandings which have caused rumblings since the 1933 conference have been. entirely removed. COMMITTEES WINDING UP. No plenary session of the Imperial Conference was held to-day. Committees dealt with questions of nationality, and British policy in the Antarctic. The economic sub-committee completed its report on films, and practically exhausted its agenda. All the committee work, it is expected, will he finished at the week-end. Following on the delegates’ visit to Cardington, the Air Communications Committee is ready to draft its report. "A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING.” Mr Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, in 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 the principle of no question of domination on one side, or subordination on the other. He

personally regarded future co-opera-tion as assured. DENISON APPOINTMENT REPORT NOT AUTHORISED MR BRUOE RETICENT. (Received November 18. 8.23 p.m.) LONDON, November 17. Mr Bruce declined to comment on the story that Sir Hugh Denison, the Australian Trade Commissioner, will shortly be raised to Ministerial rank in Washington beyond saying ho had not authorised sufch a statement. It is known that Mr Bruce, throughout the Imperial Conference, has been averse to Ministerial appointments abroad, and thinks there is no justification for such a policy, except where contiguity exists, such as in the case of Canada and the United States. A message from New York states that Sir Hugh Denison arrived there, and declined to discuss the report, declaring that he knew nothing about the suggested Ministerial appointment.