7 JUNE 1924, Page 10

The supporters of complete autonomy are numerous in both South

Africa and Australia as well as in Canada. In the matter of evolving a working constitution for the British Commonwealth we have by no means reached finality. The present position of. the Dominions, their Treaty-making powers and their relations with foreign countries are ambiguous, and much clear-thinking will be needed if we are to find a way out which, while safe- guarding the interests of the British Commonwealth as a whole, will give full scope to that feeling of nation- hood to which so much importance is attached at present.

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