21 JUNE 1924, Page 10

A reading of the debate at Ottawa convinces me that

the Daily Express was quite correct when it stated :— " The claim of a Dominion to be an international party to a treaty made by Great Britain, while retaining the right to fight in defence of that treaty only by special and local parliamentary approval, is admitted by the practice of the whole Empire since 1914. This is all Mr. Mackenzie King claims, and since the Canadian Opposition leader, Mr. Meighen, refused his challenge to put the entire Lausanne Treaty to the vote it must be assumed that he speaks for Canada."