DOMINIONS AND THE MOTHERLAND
LONDON. June 22
Sir T. Mackenzie, interviewed, said that the Empire's permanency was contingent upon giving effect to the wider Imperial Government. It was absurd to leave the whole foreign policy, possibly involving war and trade treaties, in the hands of the Executive of a Parliament elected by only one portion of the Empire. The dominions did not desire to make suggestions concerning Ireland, but he always hold that the solving of the Imperial conception ought to settle the Irish problem. If there were a great Imperial bodv, representative, as it should be, it would give Ireland a proportionate voice, retaining for her, as for the rest of the Empire, subject to modification, the control of he: 1 own affairs. In any reconstruction of the Empire the oversea dominions would undoubtedly require a proportionate voice in foreign affairs, but the Mother Lima would still dominate the situation.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 51
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