Foreign Affairs: Imperial Conference

During the past week the Imperial Conference (which is a meeting at London of the Prime Ministers of the British Dominions, the representative of India and the members of the Home Government) discussed the following business. No definite decisions were arrived at.

Imperial Preference. Imperial Preference is (roughly) the granting of a preferential tariff on imports within the Empire. Sir Philip Lloyd Graeme, President of the Board of Trade, said that if the Dominions and the mother country worked together they would be able to realize a development throughout the Empire comparable to that...

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