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Page 219 - Colonies which have not already adopted such a policy should, as far as their circumstances permit, give substantial preferential treatment to the products and manufactures of the United Kingdom. || ,,4. That the Prime Ministers of the Colonies respectfully urge on His Majesty's Government the expediency of granting in the United Kingdom preferential treatment to the products and manufactures of the Colonies, either by exemption from or reduction of duties now or hereafter imposed. || ,,5. That the...
Page 219 - Conference was as follows : — " 1. That this Conference recognises that the principle of preferential trade between the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Dominions beyond the seas would stimulate .and facilitate mutual commercial intercourse, and would, by promoting the development of the resources and industries of the several parts, strengthen the Empire.
Page 24 - England will have in us a friendly nation— a subordinate but still a powerful people — to stand by her in North America in peace or in war. The people of Australia will be such another subordinate nation. And England will have this advantage, if her colonies progress under the new colonial system, as I believe they will, that, though at war with all the rest of the world, she will be able to look to the subordinate nations in alliance with her, and owning allegiance to the same Sovereign, who...
Page 219 - Seas. (3) That with a view, however, to promoting the increase of trade within the Empire, it is desirable that those Colonies which have not already adopted such a policy should, as far as their circumstances permit, give substantial preferential treatment to the products and manufactures of the United Kingdom.
Page 24 - America in peace or in war. The people of Australia will be such another subordinate nation. And England will have this advantage, if her colonies progress under the new colonial system, as I believe they will, that, though at war with all the rest of the world, she will be able to look to the subordinate nations in alliance with her, and owning allegiance to the same sovereign, who will assist in enabling her again to meet the whole world in arms, as she has done before.
Page 80 - England annuls ultra vires or unconstitutional acts of the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Union of South Africa. The...
Page 41 - ... the spirit in which contributions have been made in the past and will, no doubt, be made in the future. It is, of course, possible to over-estimate the importance of the requirements of the oversea dominions as a factor in our expenditure; but, however this may be, the cost of naval defence and the responsibility for the conduct of foreign affairs hang together.
Page 186 - ... Britannic unity — the dependence of intimate political association on the "unification of economic interest". As expressed in The Britannic Question his conception of the Britannic Alliance was based on the theory that "in democratic communities the integrating force which tends to make them 'organic' is not the compulsive power of a central government but the conscious sense of mutual aid in living of which the public policy must be an expression if the 'unity
Page 9 - Britannic ^Question is the problem of how to effect a closer and permanent union between the self-governing
Page 197 - With their own immemorial civilisation, traditions, and indigenous ideals, all essentially non-European, and with their widely different standard of living, all of which differentiate the Indian peoples from the Britannic, a free exchange of population is not easy to contemplate.