THE KING AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
QUESTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
NO INDEPENDENT ACTION BY SOVEREIGN London, August 9. In the House of Commons Lord Robert' Cecil, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to Mr. A. Lynch, said fbero had been no violations of the Constitutional practice by which the Foreign Secretary dealt with all letters and telegrams in relation to international policy. Mr. Lynch inquired whether there was any record of correspondence before the' war between the King and the Kaiser or Prince Henry of Prussia. Lord Robert Cecil referred Mr. Lynch to the Command Paper issued on the subject. Mr. Lynch: Has the King made a foreign policy: and, if so, has he ever pursued it without reference to the Foreign Office? Mr. Speaker: That raises a very different question. Mr. Bonar Law, referring to the telegram from the Kaiser to President Wilson (recently cabled as a feature of Mr. .Gerard's book on the beginning of the war), said_ there had been no change in the Constitutional practice. "The Sovereign takes no independent action in fore'gn affairs."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 7
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