"Put only regulars on guard' was the slogan of the Cleve- L. A. 7-12-24 TO THE INDEPENDENT, 9 Arlington St., Boston Please send and bill to me sixteen issues of THE INDEPENDENT for the five months of the campaign at your special rate of one dollar. Name Address Regular Rate, 26 issues $3 Published fortnightly until Sept. 15, After that date, weekly THE LIVING AGE VOL. 322—JULY 12, 1924 — NO. 4175 LIVING BRINGS THE WORLD TO AMERICA A WEEK OF THE WORLD DOMINION STATUS PREMIER MACKENZIE KING's pronouncement in the Canadian Parliament upon the relation of Canada to the Lausanne Treaty has suddenly lifted an undertone in the unceasing discussion of British imperial relations to the prominence of an almost strident keynote. Canada was not represented at the negotiations which resulted in the treaty between the British Empire and Turkey, because she was requested by the London Foreign Office not to send a delegate. The reason for this request was that France proposed to insist upon separate representation for certain of her dependencies in case the autonomous Commonwealths of the Empire participated directly in the negotiations. In other words, there was version of the issue that arose as to the relative representation of the United States and Great Britain in the League of Nations during the debate upon our joining the latter body. a new The volume and the liveliness of English comment on this subject show how close it comes to the British heart. very serious question of a common Empire policy must be resolutely faced.' The New Statesman recognizes that the British Foreign Office will have to concede to Canada and all the Dominions the right to diplomatic autonomy, and that this, though easy enough in theory, is likely to prove embarrassing in practice. Other nations with whom we are conferring or disputing are confronted with a single unit that claims five votes. The United States has long boggled at this, as we know, and so now has France. Their objection may seem unreasonable to us; but it is deeply rooted, and we cannot expect to laugh or argue them out of it, especially in cases of controversy where votes may be considered of importance. . . . If France, at some future conference, insists on her Sultan of Morocco as a counterweight to Canada, then we shall have two alternatives no conference, or the acceptance of the Sultan of Morocco. ing or absurd. But neither would be so Either of these courses might be embarrass embarrassing and absurd as the exclusion of Canada against her will. Some of the specific difficulties in the present situation are thus summarized The Saturday Review insists that 'the in the London Outlook: Copyright 1924, by the Living Age Co. |