Foreign News: Imperial Conference

William T. Cosgrave, President of the Irish Executive Council; Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland; W. L. Mackenzie King, Premier of Canada; Sir R. A. Squires, Premier of Newfoundland; General J. C. Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa; S. M. Bruce, Premier of New Zealand, the Maharajah of Alwar, representative of India, were all reported to have arrived in London for the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct 1), and were addressed at the first meeting at No. 10 Downing St. by Premier Baldwin, who outlined British policies for the past year.

The Premiers were forced to let it be known that they would be able to accept only a fraction of the numerous invitations they had received. The Daily Mail, Rothermere daily, applauded their decision, recalling “the Imperial Conference of 1907, when the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Canadian Premier; the late Premier Louis Botha of South Africa; and the late Dr. Leander Starr Jameson of Cape Colony were simultaneously ill from over-banqueting.”