BRITAIN'S POST-WAR POLICY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 148, 26 June 1916, Page 5

BRITAIN'S POST-WAR POLICY.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S SETTLED OPINION. SHOWN IN PARIS CONFERENCE SIESOLimOMS. Received 5-5 p.m., June 25. LONDON, June 24. Mr. Bonar Law, speaking at a farewell banquet to the Hon. W. M. Hughes, said the resolutions of tne Faris Conference may be taken as representing the settled opinion of the British Government. Mr. Bonar Law added: I tnink the first thing is to find if we can come to a general agreement regarding imperial trade policy. It is noteworty that Mr. Raneiman himself drafted the resolution which was carried at the Paris Conference whereby titers shall be a period alter the w»r wnen the Allies shall not resume trading relations with Germany. This shows that the Coalition Government Is not neglecting the subject, and we may have the whole question of tariff reform examined free of party leellng. Other speakers suggested tne possibility of Mr. Hughes' early return to Britain to continue his propaganda in favour of an inter-imperial economic and political alliance. Mr. Hughes had made the political relations of Britain and the Dominions after the war tiie chief topic. In his last speech he insisted that our Empire is no Empire, because it is not bound by any logical and legal tie. These relations were well enougli when the Dominions were in swaddling clothes, but they must cnange. and radically change now.