How are seven free and self-governing Democracies to be kept
in touch with a world-State's ever-changing foreign relations, and at the same time how can the sovereignty of the people in each section of the Empire be adequately safeguarded ? That is the crux of the whole problem of inter-Imperial relations. In those far-off pre-War days the Dominions were content to leave the question of foreign policy to Downing Street. Viewed from the wheatfields of Saskatchewan or the sheep- stations of Queensland, the intrigues of European Chan- celleries before 1914 seemed remote and unimportant. But the War changed all that. To-day the nations of the British Commonwealth realize that they cannot live to themselves alone, even if they wished to do so, and that what happens in Europe does indeed concern them vitally.
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