THE IRISH QUESTION
SHOULD THE IMPERIAL CONFER-
ENCE .CONSIDER TH
(BNJTBB PBSBS ASSOCIATION.—OOPTKWBT.)
<ABSTRAIIAN-NBW ZBAIAND CABM! ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, lltli June.
The Westminster Gazette "dissents from Sir George Reid's letter, and considers that the Irish question is not purely ,a domestic concern of the United Kingdom. ' "We are. of General Smuts's, opinion.' tha£ .it.;, should bo ruled 'within the function of th§ conference. The Irish question has enormous importance-for the .and the British people should.be induced* to ■regard it ns an not"a domes-* tic, matter. If vie attempt to draw up a mechanical Constitution for the Empire ■we will reach inextricable _ difficulties, but these -annual ■ reassemblings- of the Standing Committee of the Empire will result in a group of subjects^ being gradually sorted, out which it would be unconstitutional to deal with except.by' reference* to the Imperial" Conference... The written Constitution must follow, not be preceded by, the fact."
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 8
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148THE IRISH QUESTION Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 8
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