The Archive · 1923

The Imperial Conference

Ort.

Tie meeting of the first British Imperial. Conference since the war is an event which every nation in the world must watch with interest. Reuter, in a preliminary summary of points of interest, tells us that:

The problems which are considered to loom very large to the United States and Japan relate to the future economic ties between the Motherland and Dominions, the naval balance in the Pacific and the immigration colour bar. On the other hand, the European Governments are chiefly. concerned with the Dominions statesmen's views on the so-called isolationist movement. There is an impression abroad that General Smuts is the only overseas Premier who is strongly in favour of continuance

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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