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Show LONDON EVOLVES" j DOMINION SYSTEM i i GRANTING COMPLETE AUTONOMY AND SEPARATE CONDUCT MAKES HISTORY Each Colonial Government Responsible Only to King; Britain Too; j New Dominion System Is Evolved. Washington The recent publication of the bases of the agreement reached in the imperial conference at London supplies one of the most striking examples ex-amples of the fashion in which the Briton achieves revolution of evolution. evolu-tion. What the declaration actually constitutes is a recognition of what exists ex-ists already. It is therefore one of the most ustanishing bits of realistic thought in modern political history. And incidentally it is a tremondous personal triumph for Hertzog of South Africa, because it follows closely upon the order of ideas outlined by him at the beginning of the conference. At that time the South Africa premier pre-mier said that the foundations of the British commonwealth, which had to be laid, should be: "In principle, unrestrained un-restrained freedom of action to each member of the commonwealth. In practice, prac-tice, consultation with a view to cooperative coop-erative action wherever possible." Exactly Ex-actly this has been arrived at by the formula which has been hit upon and the fashion in which it has been given form. The unity of the imperial edifice is preserved by sovereignty represented by a common king. The independence of the separate entities is achieved by the, fact that each cabinet, although acknowledging nominal allegiance to the same king, is within its own territories ter-ritories absolute master of policies and actions. Thus, if Great Britain ia forced to go to war because of its Locarno Lo-carno commitments, for example, Canada Can-ada is not automatically involved in the conflict, ft will consult with Great Britain before the conflict breaks; U will decide for itself w'hether the conflict con-flict is inescapable and whether its own interests are involved sufficiently |