In a great concern like the British Commonwealth there will,
undoubtedly, every now and then be friction- producing incidents such as the Lausanne episode. They are inevitable among nations just as they are among individuals. But the attention which has been given to the subject will not have been in vain if it brings home to us two lessons. We in Great Britain must do nothing which could give rise to the idea that we have any desire—which we certainly have not—to derogate from the national status of the Dominions, from their complete equality with ourselves. Our brethren in Canada, for their part, should appreciate the difficulties of devising a workable scheme for arriving at a common foreign policy for •the Empire. The more we all think about the subject the better ; just such an incident as we have been confronted with was required to clarify our views.
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