IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 72, 18 December 1926, Page 11

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

MOST SUCCESSFUL MARKED GROWTH OF MUTUAL KNOWLEDGE MR. AMERY'S IMPRESSIONS The Secretary of State for for the Dominions says the Imperial Conference was most successful, the growth of mutual knowledge being, more marked than at former Conferences. Bl’ TELEGRAPH.- PRESS AJSOCIATIOM CorruiuHT. London. December 16. “The Imperial Conference has been most successful, although at due, moment success did not seem likely, said Mr. Leopold Amerv, addressing the Constitutional Chib. lie recalled that Mr. Baldwin.at the recent farewell dinner confessed that lie approacned t ic Conference with some misgiving ami even suggested to Mr. Amery the possibility of postponement. Mr. Amerv continued: “I shared some of the Premier's misgivings. I felt that tlie Conference iniijlit be disappointing owing to. apparently, the widest dnergence of views between the different Empire Governments regarding constitutional. issues, also because Britain "as not readv to promote economic cooperation, which is the greatest Imperial problem with large-scale prcfeienccs. However, we separated tn a verv different spirit. “The Conference was, perhaps, the most successful from the .viewpoint of the intimate personal understanding which grew up between members, enabling the heads of the different Empire Governments to become friends and make allowances for personal idiosyncracies. Take such factors into account when yon see speeches and read telegrams between Conferences. the growth of mutual knowledge was more marked at the recent Conference than at former ones, despite the fact that members were approaching problems from different angles. Moreover, the personal good-will and desire .to cooperate to reach conclusions with the avoidance, of anything approaching a division into two camps, besides the absence of anv appeal to the outside public, made the Conference the best of the manv with which T have been connected.”