MR. AMERY'S SUMMARY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 1 November 1926, Page 9

MR. AMERY'S SUMMARY

PEACE THE POLICY OF EMPIRE

CONFERENCE'S USEFUL WORK.

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 30th October.

Mr. Leopold Amery, Secretary of Stato for Dominion Affairs, in the course of his wireless broadcast review of the Imperial Conference, pointed out that they had assembled under the deep impression of the unveiling of a tablet to tho Empire's million dead, resulting in a feeling that the Conference must livo up to the ideals for which the men died.

Foreign affairs were discussed in

camera, "not because tho British policy has a single aim or motive which it is desired to conceal, or any other aim than the promotion of peace. The proceedings of the session were kept private only because it was felt that publication would restrict free and unhampered discussion." Sir Austen Chamberlain's review revealed the position of Europe and the world as far more peaceable and promising than when the 1923 Conference met, a state of affairs to which Britain has contributed in no umall share. ' Similar reasons actuated the decision to keep the defence discussions secret. This session was most important, revealing a greater desire than ever before for real Empire co-operation in defence. The Conference was doing an immense amount of useful work, and there could be .no hesitation in forecasting that when it was finished it would be found that it had been no less useful than any of its predecessors.