THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 13

THE BRITISH EMPIRE

PRESERVATION OF WORLD PEACE GOKSULTATiONS DESIRABLE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright TORONTO, September 14. Can the King be at war and at peace at the same time was one of the questions aired by the British Relations Conference. Some of the delegates took the view that the completely selfgoverning nations of the Empire had really resolved themselves into six separate independent kingdoms, with a common sovereign, and that the King’s acts, as King of Canada, need have no relationship to his acts as King of the United Kingdom or of Australia. Another group contended that there was ground for holding that no part of tho Empire could enter into war without such action being recommended to tho King by the Ministers of all the different Governments. This view, if adopted, would make unnecessary consideration of tho possibility of one part of tho Empire remaining neutral while another was at war. Ther© was general agreement by tho delegates that consultation and co-op-cration were desirable in tho Empire’s internal relations. It was stressed that tho consultations should be directed to tho preservation of peace to a greater extent than to talk of war. The conference referred tho matter to a committee of lawyers for a report.