FORMS OF TREATIES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 83, 4 October 1930, Page 9

FORMS OF TREATIES

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

CONSTITUTIONAL SIDE

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 4th October, 11 a.m.)

- RUGBY, 3rd October. At a plenary meeting of the Imperial Conference to'be held on Wednesday in the Eecoption Boom of tlio Foreign Office, a general statement will be heard from delegations on the problems oil intor-Impcrial economic relations. As

long statements are expected to be made on behalf of each delegation, the session may last two days. Both in tho _ United Kingdom and in the Dominions economic problems are "regarded as raising the. most important issues before the Conference.

Full reports of the proceedings, which will bo- conducted in private, will bo published. ' ; -

Meanwhile good progress is being made with the consideration of other matters. At a meeting of the heads of _ delegations at 10, Downing street this morning a preliminary discussion of the various constitutional aspects of inter-Imperial relations was continued. It is understood that most of the time at to-day's meeting was occupied with the consideration of the working, since the last Conference, of machinery for effecting communication between His Majesty's ■various Governments respecting external relations. The form of treaties was also discussed and a Committee, set up by Conference under the chairmanship of Lord Saukey, took over the more detailed examination of the form of commercial treaties.

The status of High Commissioners was also before the meeting. ' On the question of precedence of High Commissioners, it was recognised that it was a matter for the British' Government to settle and on their behalf a promise was given that an attempt to reach accommodation with the Dominions would be made.

Other aspects of inter-Imperial relations, will be surveyed. • . On Monday the heads of delegations will again meet, when it is hoped that a preliminary review of these questions will then be completed and the matters raised will be handed over to Lord Sahkey's' Committee. Before themeeting concluded it was agreed to establish a Committee on Arbitration and Disarmament under the chairmanship of one of tlio Canadian delegates, Mr. Maurieo Dupre.