EMPIRE TREATIES.
PROPOSAL TO LEAGUE COUNCIL
CONCESSION TO DOMINIONS. A NEW PROCEDURE. GENEVA, March 9. As a result of the Imperial Conference discussion on the future formula for drawing up British treaties and the extent under which the Dominions are involved, Sir Austen Chamberlain, with the concurrence of the Dominions, made a statement requesting the League Council to agree, for constitutional reasons, that future Treaties under the League’s auspices should follow the custom existing prior to
the Versailles Treaty, namely, between the heads of States instead of between States, at present. It is expected that? the Council will assent to this, permitting the Dominions to accept or reject Treaties as they desire.
The Australian Press Association learns from Downing .Street circles that if tho League acquiesces in tho proposal, British treaties henceforth will bo made between “His Majesty’s Government in Britain” and His Majesty’s Governments in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Irish Free State, as the case might ibe.
This is in contradistinction to the previous method whereby it could be inferred that all treaties and agreements between His Majesty and any other State implied that all the Dominions were bound thereby, unless, as in the ease of Locarno, they wees specifically exempted. Incidentally, it might be pointed out that since the Imperial Conference Government despatches from Downing Street have been headed, “His Majesty’s Government in Britain and Northern Ireland,” instead of simply His Majesty’s Government, in order to remove the misapprehension in the minds of foreigners that the despatch emanated from some Government speaking on behalf of the whole Empire. Furthermore, when despatches- are intended to speak for the whole Empire, they will say so specifically.—(A. and N.Z.) THE KING’S TITLES. BILL IN PARLIAMENT. LONDON, March 9. The -Bill effecting a change in the Royal and Parliamentary titles in accordance with the decisions of the Imperial Conference was read a second time.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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318EMPIRE TREATIES. Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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