LORDS SEATS FOR EMPIRE PRIME MINISTERS

Northern Advocate, 25 March 1937, Page 7

LORDS SEATS FOR EMPIRE PRIME MINISTERS

Lord Chancellor Doubts If Suggestion Workable (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 24. In the House of Lords, raising the question with a view to the Empire Prime Ministers’ Coronation visits, Lord Strickland asked whether steps would be taken to enable the Dominion visitors to sit and speak in the House of Lords. , He referred to the statesmanshipshovvn by the Dominion Premiers during the December crisis. He suggested that there would be no objections in many Dominions to hereditary honours, and a remedy , would be to confer life peerages. Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor replied that he did not believe the law, as it at present stood, would permit adoption of Lord Strickland’s suggestion. Moreover, he doubted whether the Premiers would be grateful for an invitation to spend half the year at Westminster, when they ought to be attending to affairs in their own countries. Meantime, the House had the benefit of the presence of Viscount Bledisloe, Lord. Stonehaven, a former GovernorGeneral of Australia, and others peculiarly. qualified to expound the views of the Dominions. Britain’s Imperial Conference Delegation IBritish Official Wireless.! (Received 3 p.m.) RUGBY, March 24. j The Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin, announced in the House of Commons that the United Kingdom ■delegation l/o the Imperial Conference would be: ' The Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin; Lord President of the Council, Mr Ramsay MacDonald; Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Chamberlain; the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon; the Lord Privy Seal, Viscount Halifax; the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr Malcolm MacDonald; and the "Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr W. Ormsby-Gore.