IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1919, Page 5

IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.

ENDURANCE IN A COMMON CAUSE. LORD MILKER'S VIEWS. London, March 30. Lord Milner, Secretary ior the Colonies, interviewed, said that the Empire never weald forget what it had endured in common. Its sense of real brotherhood had been strengthened and could n»T»r b» destroyed. ,We were free and equal meubert of one community, and would give preference in all things to our own family. The principle referred to ft much wider field than tariffs alone. It affected immigration, shipping cables, and finance The Government an 4 the Colonial Office believed in strengthening our own Dominions, <mr own friends our own trade first ■ He added that in the War Cabinet, Dominion Premfera had made their influerwi left. The mere ehane* of talk in* things over with them frankly had an inrolrulaMe influence on our world and fnretal policy. The War Cabinet <m»nt to be eonttowd » *° me other A-ftiMntt wnnftti* rtonto be creat?d'fodealspeoWrv with Imperial issue" »nr' forrien polirv for the Empire, and aho»H Include Dominion representatives wnwrnentlv mM!pu in Bmrland closely in touch with their own Dominions When the Premier* were unable to be «-«M#H*»*t **•»'* be "Presented by prptintttt mmhm of tWr owa Goyemmmt* Thus the Dominions wonM .peak with .authority. Thev would like to have the ■Prm'"* arwa*" with them; ths* wtf tmiWMfMe. but the devmiriw? of distance mlpht vet brin* them outstatesmen swiftly in moments of Lnnl Mflner remarked incidentally that everV. nation in the Emnire mi«bt to *ttle Its flwl svstem on its own mer»t». «*d t*«i Mv» n»f*rence to the others—Aus..KZ C«We Assn-