Foreign Affairs: Imperial Conference

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

The four hundred and fifty million subjects of the King Emperor, George V, were expected to harken last week as the note of Empire boomed fortissimo at London.

"We of the British Empire . . . have a far greater territory and far more diversified resources than the United States. . . . We have before us a greater opportunity for economic development than has ever before existed. . . ."

With such words a wiry little man, flushed and fervent, reminded five Dominion premiers* and six Indian potentates,†...

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