EMPIRE GOVT.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 5

EMPIRE GOVT.

(Press Assn.-

RIGHT OF DOMINIONS TO ACT INDEPENDENTLY IN WAR CONFERENCE DISCUSSION

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(Rec. 10 p.m.) Toronto, Sept. 15. "Can the King be at,war and at peace at the same time?" was one of the questions discussed by the British Relations Conference. Some delegates took the view that the self governing nations of the Empire had really resolved themselves into six independent self -governing kingdoms but with a common sovereign and that the King's actions as King of Canada need have no relation to his actions as King of the United Kingdom or of Australia. Another group contended that there was ground for holding that no part of the Empire could enter into war without such action being recommended to the King by the Ministers of all the different governments. This vieW, if adopted, would make it necessary to consider the possibility of one part of the Empire remaining neutral while another was at war. There was general agreement hy the delegates that consultation and co-operation were very desirable in the Empire's internal relationships. It was stressed that consultations should be directed to the preservation of peace to a greater extent than to talk of war. The conference referred the matter to a committee of lawyers f or a report.