BRITISH POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 4

BRITISH POLITICS.

IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. DOMINION REPRESENTATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn LONDON, March 30. Viscount Milner, interviewed, said that the Empire would never forget what it had endured in common. Its sense of real brotherhood had been strengthened and could never be destroyed. We are free, equal members of,one community, and will give preference in all things to our own family. The principle of preference must be wider than tariffs; it affects emigration, shipping, cables and finance. ..) The Government and the Colonial Of fice believed in strengthening our own Doininios, our own friends and our own tr4de first. He added that in the War Cabinet the Dominion Premiers liad made their influence felt. The m|re chance of talking things, oyer with *hem frankly had an incalculable influ ence on our world and foreign policy. \The War Cabinet ought •to be continued in some other form. A Cabinet Committee should be created to deal specially with Imperial issues, and Foreign policy for the Empire, and should include Dominion representatives permanently residing here, and closely in touch with their own Dominions. When the Premiers'were unable to be resident they should'be represented by" prominent members of" their own Governments. Thus the Dominions would be able to speak with authority.- We would like the Premiers always with us. That, however,,'is impossible, but the devouring of distance may yet bring us outlying statesmen swif/tly in moments of crisis. Lord Milner remarked incidentally that every nation in the Empire ought to settle its fiscal system on its own merits, and then give preference to others.