DOMINION RELATIONS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19819, 6 January 1930, Page 3

DOMINION RELATIONS.

BONDS OP EMPIRE.

MUTUAL TRADING

VFKOIt OUR WW* CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, November 14. At the Lord Mayor's banquet on November 9th, which he attended for the first time, Mr Ramsay Mac Donald met with a great reception In responding to the toast of "His Majesty's Ministers," he gave what he called a brief up-to-date account of his stewardship. Dealing with the Empire family, the Prime Minister said:— "The Dominions, young, growing and virile, and we together face one of the most intricate problems that politicians ever had to face. The problem is how to unite in the family unity two apparently diametrically opposed objects —the object of independent nationhood and the obiect of common allegiance. The Imperial Conference ot 1920 is regarded as a critical Conference. There is a committee representative of the Dominions and ourselves trying to hammer out in the language of constitutional law how the general declarations of the 1926 Conference can be carried out. ~ "I pray that the delegates trom the Dominions and our own delega es do remember that, whatever the temptation may be to the contrary, the Commonwealth of British nations must be kept together, and can be kept togeth onlv in 80 far as it remembers the fan'ulv spirit, only in so far as we subordinate the sense of individualism to the sense of community, only in so far as we find the pride in our national traditions greater than the mere badges of independent authority. (Cheers.) The communitr of the family-is the | most inspiring *ode of expressing individuality'. , , , „ „ "-Weannot live V?? bou°nd' can the Commonwealth be bound by trade alone But there are common markets available for mutual trading, and of advantage, exchange ot goods, : ndus trial helpfulness, I *Tlmi meet «£ nomic Conference which will meet next year will be help*" l in SOl ™ g , ™'"• ties and suggesting 8