A perusal of the White Paper containing the corres- pondence
which has passed between the British and Canadian Governments in respect of the Lausanne Conference and Treaty, the debates in the Canadian House of Commons and the newspaper comments in the Canadian Press all serve to emphasize the present involved situation. Let me summarize the position. In October,1922, the Duke of Devonshire, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, informed the Dominion Govern- ments, including Canada, of the forthcoming Conference at Lausanne and the proposed British procedure. In the same month, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, replied that the Canadian Government took no exception to the course proposed by the British Government, adding, however, "that the extent to which Canada might be bound by the proceedings of the Con- ference was necessarily a matter for the Canadian Parlia- ment to decide." Two weeks later Mr. Bonar Law, then Prime Minister, undertook that the Treaty with Turkey should be submitted to the Canadian Parliament for approval before His Majesty was advised to ratify it.
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