Just one further comment before coming to the subject itself.
When I wrote an article in the Spectator last year defining the three alternatives before Canada as independence, annexation to the United States or free nationhood within the British Commonwealth, I was taken to task by several Canadian journals and told in polite terms that I did not know what I was talking about, and that as far as Canada was concerned " all was well in the best of all possible worlds." And yet within a year of the appearance of that article we have the Prime Minister of the Dominion in a considered speech defining the three alternatives before the Canadian people as those of independence, annexation to the United States or " a more clearly recognized relationship as a self-governing nation within the Empire "—the last solution being the one he favoured. :07- --
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