HONOURS FOR MACDONALD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20391, 21 October 1929, Page 11

HONOURS FOR MACDONALD.

RECEPTION IN CANADA.

SEAT on privy council,

FETED BY LEADING MEN.

Australian and N.Z. Press Anoocifttion. (Received October 19, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 19. A message from Ottawa says the gathering addressed there by the- British Prime Minister, Mr. Mac Donald, on Thursday, was one of the most distinguished he had faced on his American tour. Round the white horse-shoe shaped banquet table were grouped the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. R. B. Bennett, members of the Cabinet, Privy Councillors from all parts of the Dominion, and the highest members of the judiciary. That the words of the speaker, whether grave or gay, found a ready response in the minds of those present was indicated by the constant applause. That his mission had the support of the leaders .of the peeple of Canada was amply testified to by the speeches of Messrs. King and Bennett.

The Prime Minister announced that the Cabinet had passed an Order-in-Council conferring the rank of Privy Councillor on the visifor. Bonds Uniting the Empire. Agreements wore of no value, said Mr. Mac Donald, if they were merely temporary agreements on • pape>r. The kind of agreement tha,t would keep the world in peace must be made only after common confidence had been established between the people who made tho agreement.

An agreement which was not the embodiment of confidence was one of those scraps of paper which were torn up when convenience necessitated it.

With a fatherly note in his voice and a smile on his face Mr. Mac Donald spoke , of the relations between the Mother Country and the Dominions. He said thfey were bound together by nothing more than common allegiance to the Crown which symbolised unity. Mr. King assured Mr. Mac Donald of the whole-hearted sympathy with which Canada had reviewed his efforts in the cause of peace. Might it not bo that through the weary blood-stained war road they might yet come to the sunlit path of peace. Nothing less than that was worth the sacrifice of war. When war should have been abolished through war then, and not till then, would victory be complete. Altered References to Dominions.

Yesterday Mr. Mac Donald was sworn in as a member of th 6 Privy Council of Canada. He lunched with Mr. Bennett and had tea with the Unitfld States Minister, Mr. Phillips. A dinner in his honour wa3 given at Government House in the evening. Luncheon with the British High Commissioner, Sir William Clark, and a private dinner with Mr. King are the only engagements he has for to-day. A special correspondent of the Daily Express at Ottawa says one of the subjects discussed by Messrs. Mac Donald and King involved important changes in the wording ,of . the King's Speeches where the Dominions are referred to.

The phrase "our Dominions" will no longer be used, but will be replaced by " the Governments of the Dominions." When British Ministers are negotiating with foreign countries on questions in which the Dominions are concerned they t will use the phrase " His Majesty's Government and the Governments of the Dominions."