The Imperial Conference of 1937

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The Imperial Conference of 1937 was the least spectacular of the whole series from 1887 down to the present day. Its tepid, non-committal report commanded only a lukewarm press. "Less impressive than its predecessors," "conclusions small and of limited moment," "ending in a cloud of admirable sentiments," "singularly reticent," "vague,"-these characterizations of the findings are picked almost at random from the press of our British nations. But a Canadian minister, in attendance at the Conference, gave a different summing-up. He said the Conference was "useful" and contented himself with this single word. Doubtless this was a true word. A Conference including six British prime ministers, each with his retinue of colleagues, advisers, secretaries, and experts, continuing for a month, with special facilities for the interchange of information and views, could not but be of great value to all those in attendance. Indirectly there doubtless will be worthwhile results as the outcome of these exchanges of views, this widening of knowledge, this pooling of experience; but of actual business little was done because there was nothing much that could be done under the conditions that prevailed.

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