IMPERIAL DEFENCE
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PROBLEM NOT INSOLUBLE SUGGESTIONS BY LORD ESHER. (Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) LONDON, August 9. Lord Eslior in a preface lecture on the .committee of Imperial Defence, delivered to the United Service Institution in March, states that if the function of the potentialities committee is clearly grapsed, the problem of Imperial defence is not insoluble. Two conditions are essential. Tiie first that there should be no concealment of policy or intentions between the British Premier and the Prime Ministers of tlie 'Dominions, and the second that no n<rw •departure in the foreign policy, involving Imperial interests, should be taken without the approval of the 'Dominions. Lord Esher suggested annual or triennial visits of the Prime Ministers in July, with a series of meetings of the Committee of Defence, the Prime Ministers, between the conferences to. I>e-kept informed of events by the British Premier and the committee's secretaries.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 10 August 1912, Page 5
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158IMPERIAL DEFENCE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 10 August 1912, Page 5
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