4 OCTOBER 1930, Page 1
When lawyers are invited to make the language of documents
square with some new Constitutional doctrine it is their weakness to run to pedantic interpretation.
No possibility must be left, they feel, of any injury being done to the set doctrine in any coneeivable emergency. Distinctions of function, which are the crux of workability, have been almost forgotten in the latest attempt to secure equality in terms of law. However, if when the Conference comes to an end it. leaves behind it the founda- tion of a Permanent Secretariat, we shall all be able to feel that progressive co-operation betWeen the different parts of the Empire is assured. * * * *
