IMPERIAL QUESTIONS

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18440, 21 June 1920, Page 7

IMPERIAL QUESTIONS

BRITAIN’S RELATIONS WITH DOMINIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. , LONDON, June 17. In tho House of Lords, Lord Charnwood drew attention to tho necessity for devising machinery to ensure continuous consultation between? different parts of the Empire in regard to_ important Imperial and international questions. Lord Milner, in reply, emphasised tho point that there was certainly no occasion for any nervousness that proposals would bo made in this country’ that the different Governments of the Empire could be brought into a new form of subjection. Ho sniu tlifvfc tho time was long past when such an impression could reasonably bo entertained bv even the most nervous ot Dominion statesmen We gladly accepted tho position that there was no kind of authority in practice whatever might bo the theory of the Constitution, that the Parliament and neonles of the United Kingdom claimed -mv longer to exercise authority over tho Parliaments and peoples of the dominions.