IMPERIAL COUNCIL
MR CURTIN’S PROPOSAL. NOT FAVOURED IN SOUTH AFRICA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 8. South Africa is eager to co-operate after the war with the rest of the Commonwealth and the United States on the lines Mr t Churchill sketched at Harvard, but has* no enthusiasm for Mr Curtin’s proposal to establish a permanent Imperial Council, says the Cape Town correspondent of “The Times.” The “Cape Times,” which is generally a reliable echo of the Government’s sentiments, says: “Mr Curtin’s proposal from many points of view is a most attractive proposition, but it has been repeatedly examined in recent years and invariably Empire statemen’s consensus of opinion has been against the establishment of anything like an organic union. “The absence of an Imperial council naturally does not mean that there should not be the utmost degree of consultation between Britain and the Dominions. Over all large aspects of international policy and peace time economic issues, the Commonwealth is more likely to speak with one voice on great issues through free and independent Parliaments rather than through the medium of a council.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1943, Page 3
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