* As regards foreign affairs, it is urged that any
Treaty made by a Dominion Government should be made in the name of the Head of that State. If the British Government makes a Treaty on behalf of some or all of the Dominions it will specify -which Governments are parties to the Treaty and the Treaty will be signed by the King. It was unanimously recognized, however, that in foreign affairs, as in matters of Imperial Defence, the chief shire of responsibility for the present must be borne by the British Government. This is bare common sense ; the Dominions do not wish to be committed unnecessarily by the Mother Country, but the Dominions rightly recog- nize all the same that there is a corresponding danger of the Dominions committing the Mother Country. They agree, therefore, that the Mother Country should have the main responsibility of diplomatic guidance even as she bears by far the greater part of the cost. The Foreign Office will continue to represent the Dominions in general, though we may hope that an increasing number of recruits will come to it from overseas. The diplomatic representation of Canada and of the Free State at Wash- ington is noted and approved.
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