IMPERIAL DEFENCE
AND THE OVERSEAS DELEGATES A NEW DEPARTURE. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, May 27. The Imperial Conference delegates attended a. special meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith presided, and there were also present the Right Hon. L. Harcourt, the Right Hon. Sir R. McKenna, Lords Haldane, Crewe, Kitchener, and Esher, General Sir W. 6. Nicholson, Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson, General Sir lan Hamilton, and others. Sir iEdward Grey spoke at some length concerning the foreign relations with the House of Commons, and the interests of the Empire. The proceedings, which are secret, will- be resumed on Monday 'and Tuesday. The Overseas delegates are delighted at the new departure in frankly admitting them into the confidence of the Imperial Government's inner circles.
The newspapers declare that yesterday"^'meeting was a practical Imperial Cabinet Council. The door was now been opened, "and can never be shut."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10250, 29 May 1911, Page 5
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154IMPERIAL DEFENCE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10250, 29 May 1911, Page 5
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