DOMINIONS’ CONFERENCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1924, Page 5

DOMINIONS’ CONFERENCE.

. i : BRITAIN’S FOREIGN POLICY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Dee: 23. ' The Colonial Office explains that, while the Government is eagerly desirous of a conference, it does not desire unduly to influence the Dominions, /who remain perfectly free to exercise the preference of consultation by lmblegrani instead of coming to London. The view of the Colonial Office is that this is one of those cases where personal consultation is supremely important. / Furthermore, it marks a long stride in progress towards intimate inter-imperial: relations concerning the Empire’s foreign policy, being the first time in British -history up till the •piesent that a; jConterence Ims been -proposed by Britain upon a specific subject. If it is held to establish, a precedent, succeeding Governments cannot ignore such a conference.

The reason why March is suggested -as the date is that the Council of the League of Nations meets in the middle of March to receive the international decisions regarding tlie acceptance or rejection of the: Geneva .disarmament protocol. ; ;