MR DEAKIN AND SIR WILFRID LAURIER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 95, 24 April 1907, Page 5

MR DEAKIN AND SIR WILFRID LAURIER.

(Received April 24, 8,50 a.m.) LONDON, April 23. Mr G. H. Reid's criti«eii«ais, .Mr Deakin jsays : ""'^fy original

•p'r.oiposal was carried, excepting that

iJhe secretariat -was left raider the -Colonial Office, instead of ithe selfgoverning Colonies, imd all t!^eir ]rasi-

ness .and the Conf eresace being placed

trader the Prime ;Micister. Tlhe difference between Sir Wilfrid Lsaurier and myself is-that he wished the Conference to be under tbe supervision

of the Colonial Office, a»d I thijic it

needs no supervision in : t3.iat sense by any Britisla department.; xre ought -jfco be responsilale only to the ikead of tfee British Government, who sjiould b* ihe only responsible Minister to deal, With US." ;|