21 JUNE 1924, Page 9

When the British Government agreed with France to limit the

Empire's representation to two, it probably did not realize how much importance is attached overseas to the national status which the Dominions obtained as a consequence of the War. It is no exaggeration to say that from the Empire's standpoint one of the most far-reaching results of the War was the equality with the Mother Country which the Dominions obtained and the international recognition of that fact. For as Mr. Mackenzie King pointed out in the Ottawa debates, " this equality status which Canada has maintained logically and persistently," was accepted at Versailles, Washington, Genoa and the Hague.