21 APRIL 1923, Page 9

Whichever of these solutions is favoured, it still remains to

provide for the periods intervening between each Imperial Conference, whether it meets every two or every three years. Some sort of permanent consulta- tive body for the Empire, based on the lines of the Imperial War Cabinet, would seem essential. If such a body had existed last autumn at the time of the Near East crisis, the British Government would have been able to keep the Dominion Governments informed of what was taking place in Asia Minor and Constantinople.