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[past Imperial Conferences in fashioning procedure for obtain- ing Imperial unity through frank. discussion and, wherever possible,

sharing in decisions upon policyCollective security with- in the Empire, at least, needs no labourious definition. Consulta- tion is its-only path of approach.

It is to this end that Empire opinion shall be made vocal, un- W.C2janimous, and valuable to British diplomacy-that Australia ques- tioned Mr. Chamberlain's appar-

All communications intended for ent departure from the principle of consultation with Dominion publication should be addressed to Governments in the matter of the Italian negotiations Aus- the Editor, and be accompanied by tralia had the right to raise the

issue, because it was on the re- commendation of her erstwhile

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1924, that the Imperial Confer- ence of 1926 finally approved of the procedure to assure consulta- tion in advance of urgent develop- ments, so far as might be pos- sible. A sub-committee of the Imperial Conference of -1923, moreover, recommended that “be fore negotiations are opened with the intention of concluding a treaty, steps should be taken to ensure that any of the other Gov- ernments of the Empire likely to be interested are informed,” so

Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 19, 1938. that such Government might have

AUSTRALIA AND THE ROME PACT

the opportunity to express its views, or, if its interests are in- |volved, participate in the negotia- tions. The 1926 Conference un- animously reaffirmed this recom- mendation, and, on the advice of Announcement of Australia's a sub-committee of its own, urg- wholehearted approval of the ed that the rule should be un- Anglo-Italian Agreement is not derstood as applying to any ne- without special significance., Out-gotiations (for a treaty) which wardly and visibly, there has been any Government intends to con- no disagreement between the duct"

Dominions and His Majesty's There are, of course, penalties Government in the United King- for such a stand. If the Domin- dom on foreign policy. Behind ions demand a right to influence the scenes, however, as was dis-British foreign policy, they must closed when Mr. Malcolm Mac-be prepared to undertake the Donald's half-truth was so couch-obligations entailed in active sup- ed as to give an impression that port of it. no communication had been re- ceived from New Zealand, there has been some disturbance of feeling and the issue of consulta-The Cult Of Slimness.· tion has been sharply raised. The!'

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Australian Government, for in- The King's commendation of stance, while not criticising the fitness to his subjects in his circumstances connected with broadcast address prompts the Mr. Eden's resignation made it thought that the Georges have a plain that by consultation. she pretty good record of their own implied information on questions among monarchs in that respect. likely to arise, with a view to as-Fond as he was of pleasures of certaining the Dominions' views the table "I vill have all de var- in advance, in place of informing ieties," he would announce before them of decisions after they have supper to his house steward when been arrived at and acted upon he had squeezed another subsidy and when it is too late for an out of Parliament-George II alternative action to be submitted. kept his figure so well that he It is in the highest interests of was able to wear at Dettingen the the Empire generally that the de coat which he had worn when he mand for consultation upon any led a cavalry charge at Oudenarde matter which appears to be a thirty-five years earlier. departure by the British Govern- George III went rather too ment from a declared course in far:

He

foreign policy should not be dis- As a young man (wrote Rose- torted by captious criticism or for bery in "Pitt") he had been warn- factional purposes. The issues are led by the precept and example of far too grave, and the possible his uncle, the Duke of Cumber- misleading of public opinion too land, that the danger of their 8-VALVE THREE-WAVEBAND serious, to admit of such indulg-family lay in a full habit of body, BATTERY OPERATED SUPER-ence. Only an impartially in- and he had struggled against the HETERODYNE WITH THE NEW formed democracy can render hereditary tendency to corpulence

that support which the. British with energy and success. VIBRATOR-UNIT., RANGE:

Government must seek in its new spent days in the saddle. His 13-580 METRES

approach to the problem of appassion for exercise wore out his peasement. No responsible lea-stoutest equerries. The simpli The Vibrator-Unit, in conjunction ders of opinion will wish to make city of his daily fare was such as with a 6-volt car accumulator, or

Mr. Chamberlain's task harder to excite scarcely less derision. than it already is. But obviously among the wags and wits of Lon- other heavy-duty battery gives an informed public opinion, will don than in the cool solitude of quality performance than not exist to furnish its meed of Richmond's kitchen. But he had with HT. batteries also because necessary support, if the impres overdone his remedy.

sion is allowed by Whitehall to George IV let himself go in his anode voltage from vibrator supply gain ground that in any emer- later days, but there had been a is higher. Reproduction is entirelygency Dominion opinion must fall period when he was hardly less without background

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