A TRIBUTE TO MR BRYCE

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 10 March 1911, Page 5

A TRIBUTE TO MR BRYCE

THE ONLY BRIGHT SPOT

(Received March 10, ,0.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. In the House of Commons Mr Balfour paid a generous tribute to- Mr Bryce, but blamed the Government for mis-instructing him. It was right that our ambassador should help, a self-governing Dominion, "but the British manufacturers were also entitled' to assistance. "The only "bright spot was the announcement in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's speech that he Intended to bring preference forward at the Imperial Conference. It was clear that preference was not dead in Canada, and certainly not in Britain.

Sir Edward Grey declared that but for Mr Bryce's tact and skin for the last two years Canada would have demanded her own representative at Washington.. Fortunately the relations between Great Britain and Canada were never "better. The worst service that could be done to the relations of Great Britain and Canada would be to attempt to impede the reciprocity negotiations.