THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16824, 15 April 1918, Page 6

THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

SATISFACTION IN ENGLAND. [FROU OUR OWN CORBESFOJfIBENT.] LONDON, Feb. 19. General satisfaction has been expressed at the announcement that further meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet and War Conference are to be held ia*London this summer. \ " The Imperial War Cabinet," says the National News, "is the germ out of which must emerge that larger federation of Empire which fars'ceing statesmen advocated even before the stern necessities of war forced the solution of so many vexed problems. These War Cabinet meetings tighten the bond that unites us with our Dominions In a common effort and a mutual endurance." The Times says : " Those who attended the meetings of the last Imperial War Cabinet were unanimous in their estimate of the importance of such a gathering in war time of Dominion representatives at the centro of the Empire." The British Auatralasian says: "It would have gone hard with Australian interests if Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward had not been present in London on a similar mission last year, for tho Commonwealth was, unfortunately, not represented, and the New Zealandera were very efficient spokesmen on several matters wherein the interests of the Dominion and the Commonwealth Coincide, as, for instance,, the future. of the German colonies in the Pacific.''