LATEST NEWS WASHINGTON CONFERENCE
AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATION.
WELCOMED BY AMERICA.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 8, 0.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, October 7. The State Department says that the Government is gratified that the British Dominions will be represented ■abdiiel} Washington Conference. It states that the American Government has- driedthroughout the negotiations to make it possible for the British Dominions -to . be represented. The United States, however, could not directly 7 suggest to the British Government that the Dominions should be represented, because the question was no official concern of this country, but the American Governments did suggest that Britain’s delegation should number from five to seven, with a view to allowing' sufficient room for Dominions’ representation. The State Department denies that America slammed the door against Australian om-anyT other Pacilic Dominion rcpresentaLio.. as Mr Hughes is said to have alleged in the Australian Parliament-
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14770, 8 October 1921, Page 5
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