5 MARCH 1927, Page 3

Thus Newfoundland has won her case. Until a few years

ago neither Canada nor Newfoundland troubled herself about the . ownership. Labrador has become unexpectedly important through the development of wood-pulp and water power.- It is most satisfactory that such a highly important case should have been referred by common consent,to. the Judicial .Committee. We trust that the danger is now past that the Dominions will cease to recognize what a wonderful and romantic link of Empire the Judicial Committee has been and can be. In the Newfoundland case- it was,- of course, acting purely as an interpreter of the law, not as a mediator. It was far above the temptation to smooth matters over by " splitting the difference." Its very detachment is its title to respect and confidence.