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They were reported to have agreed that: 1) the Mother Country is justified in greatly increasing her armaments, not to impose the Pax Britannica-that being somewhat out of date-but "to play an effective mediating rôle" in Europe; 2) the dominions expect Great Britain, if the necessity arises,to act in a European crisis even before she has opportunity to inform them fully of her policy; 3) each dominion in freedom under the Crown has the right to make its own decision whether or not to associate itself with the other Country's high policies...
...Silver Jubilee of George V was about to get under way last week (see p. 20) many an eye turned to Canada to see what expressions of proud imperialism might come from His Majesty's mightiest dominion. Observers found Canadians less deeply engrossed in the King's 25th milestone than in the question of whether they might be obliged to go to war again. Student pacifists, leagues against war were as profuse in Canada as in the U. S. Few weeks ago a seasoned old Quebec M. P. named Henri Bourassa pushed a measure through Commons sustaining...
...coal lies beneath Ontario's geologically ancient hills. And that fact has given rise to the greatest public power enterprise in the capitalist world-the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. Last week "Hydro" found itself in the thick of a furious politico-economic fight which stirred the whole Dominion...
...proposed repudiation threw Canada into an uproar. Conservative newspapers thundered about disastrous repercussions on Ontario's credit, if not that of the whole Dominion. Securities tumbled. Protective committees tossed out advertisements asking: "If Hon. Mr. Hepburn is RIGHT, the courts will uphold him. So why deny an appeal?" In Ottawa the Federal Government feared that Hon. Mr. Hepburn's move would put bad ideas in the heads of other politicians...
...haired executive of the Irish Free State (which Irishmen say "is not Irish, is not Free and is not a State") conveyed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald a polite, though stiff intimation that "in existing circumstances" he "will not be able" to attend the Royal Jubilee with other dominion heads. In attendance, however, will be the Irish Free State's London-resident High Commissioner...