IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

GREAT INTEREST IN UNITED STATES. A JUDICIOUS AGREEMENT (Alist.' and N Z. Cable). York, Nov, 21. The Imperial Conference report, which is arousing great interest throughout America, is being prominently displayed in most of the newspapers. It also calls forth much editorial comment. The Boston Herald says: “Now members of the British Commonwealth of Nations know what they are and happy will be the whole commonwealth if every member remains faithful to this judicious agreement.” The New 'York Times, in pointing out that the Dominions ar e necessarily to some extent conducting foreign relations ,says that this has been done already in the case of Canada, and may yet be done in, similar fashion with Australia and South Africa! It concludes: “A close, inspection shows that little is proposed except to make the old Empire move easily m the new world. There are no hard and fast rules about the Empire. That (is one reason why it emerges , from, crisis after crisis stronger than over.”

The New York World says: “To Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand this is n : charter of nationhood.”

The Chicago Tribune comments only upon the. kinematogrnph discussions at the conference, and remarks: “Members apparently are afraid of our movies ”