WAR CONTACT
BRITAIN & DOMINIONS IMPERIAL COUNCIL. NOT NEEDED AT PRESENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. April 2. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) Replying in the House of Lords to a motion asking whether the British Government would consider the desirability of forming an Imperial War Council. Viscount Cranborne said that already there was the closest collaboration between the Government and the Dominions. He had daily interviews with the Dominion High Commissioners, and gave them all the information available on international matters. He also kept them in touch with all decisions and deliberations of the Government and the War Cabinet on natters affecting the Dominions. There was also a direct channel of communications from Mr. Churchill and himself to their opposite numbers in the Dominions. Lord Cranborne stressed the importmix’ of visits by dominion statesmen, md said the existing arrangements, ■einforeed by these visits, were a most isefiii method of co-operation. Should •ircumslances arise and the situation liter to make a conference of Doninion Prime Ministers possible, the British Government would hoarlily welcome it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1941, Page 6
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172WAR CONTACT Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1941, Page 6
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