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Last year, the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa passed a vote legalizing the union. It provided that a majority vote of each congregation shall decide whether that congregation shall join the union or stay out. The voting is still taking place and, from known results, is sure to return a handsome majority of Unionists. The union of the three churches is to be consummated in Toronto on June 10. Each denomination is to hold a great and last conclave, each is to form a separate procession, converge upon a central point, march on as the United Church of Canada...
...Invitations were issued by the British Cabinet to the Governments of the Dominion to send representatives to an Imperial Conference in London. Problems to be discussed...
...seven nations, it would appear that the Free State acted within its rights. But the question is far, far deeper. The Commonwealth is bound together by a common bond represented by the Crown. Dominion Status within the Commonwealth does not legally empower any member to undertake any action which shall or may in any way undermine government by King, Legislature and Executive.*** The mere registration of the treaty seems in no way to invalidate this con- ception of government, but it implies the right of the Free State, if the Boundary Commission fails to settle the Boundary Question between Northern...
...Imperial Conference. Meantime, at Geneva, members of the League wonder if there are really two kinds of memberrship-one for ordinary nations, one for the British Commonwealth. In London, Colonel Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, after stating that the Government intended to accord to the Dominion High Commissioner in London the same privileges enjoyed by Ambassadors to the Court of St. James, said...
...passed or treaty negotiated by the Dominions which is repugnant to a law affecting the Dominion and passed by the Parliament at Westminster is void...