IMPERIAL COUNSEL

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 8

IMPERIAL COUNSEL

DIRECT TOUCH WITH LONDON

THE NEW POLICY OF UNITY.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPXRIGHT.)

(ACS. AND N.Z. CABIiK ASSN. AND REDTER.)

(Received August 19, 2.30 p.m.)

LONDON, 18th August,

The Press Bureau reports : During the past two and a-half months, the Imperial War Cabinet has been in continuous session. Every aspect of policy affecting the conduct of the war and the question of peace lias been examined by the Prime Ministers of the Empire and other members representative of all its parts.

These meetings have proved of such value that the Imperial War Cabinet thought it essential that certain modifications should be effected in the existing channels of communication, so as to make consultation between the various Governments of the Empire regarding Imperial policy as continuous and intimate as possible. It has therefore been decided that for the future the Prime Ministers of the Dominions, as members of the Imperial War Cabinet, shall have the right of communication on matters of Cabinet importance, direct with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom whenever they see fit.

It has also been decided that each Dominion shall have the right to nominate, a visiting or resident Minister in London, to be a. member of the Imperial War Cabinet at meetings other than those attended by the Prime Ministers. These meetings will be held at regular intervals. Arrangements are to be made for the representation of India at the meetings.