31 MARCH 1923, Page 10

The Canadian Government, as the debate showed, hold that, as

the Treaty was an arrangement between the Dominion and the United States, with which nobody else was directly concerned, no other signature was necessary. The Canadian Prime Minister, in reply to Mr. Meighen, stated that the British Government had expressed their "full approval" of the course adopted. The Times states that the Canadian Press as a whole has "heralded the act as a new departure in constitu- tional practice and a confirmation of the status of Canada as an equal partner in the British Commonwealth of Nations."