An agreement on an appointment which will satisfactorily meet the
rightful claim of His Majesty to be represented to his own liking and the rightful claim of the Dominion Ministers to have a Governor-General who will be respected and trusted as such a high official ought to be, must in the main be the responsibility of the Dominion concerned. For the King, of course, will not break down the slowly but firmly evolved tradition that he " acts upon the advice of his Ministers." The only thing which gives us a momentary doubt in the present case—and this refers only to a matter of form— is that Mr. Scullin mentioned his intention of appointing Sir Isaac Isaacs before he left Australia for the Imperial Conference and before he could have had any opportunity of consulting the King. The whole subject is one upon which the Dominion Prime Ministers—all of them notoriously intent upon holding the British Commonwealth together—might ponder carefully. Obviously the Crown is the one solid remaining link between the Sister-States of the Empire' and Great Britain. It has therefore become a uniquely precious emblem..
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