One King--Indivisible!

Achievements of the 1930 Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 13, et seq.) which adjourned in London last week to meet next year at Ottawa:

1) Hereafter the King-emperor will appoint the Governor General of a Dominion upon "advice" of that Dominion's cabinet, thus opening the way to appointment of "native born" Governors General.

2) Completion of the mammoth Far East Naval Base at Singapore is postponed five years.

3) A court in which one Dominion may sue another, if the other is agreeable, will be established as "The Voluntary Empire Tribunal."

4) The fact is recognized, in the words of Dominion Secretary Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas last week that "Great Britain is one of the Dominions now 'the Dominion of Great Britain,' and we wish to emphasize that status."

5) Changes in the succession to the Throne will be valid hereafter only when ratified unanimously by all the Parliaments of all the Dominions-a conspicuous victory for the Royal Family, since there was talk of deciding that any Dominion might individually depose the Sovereign as its King, leaving him king of the rest.

The Conference was a signal, sickening failure (described as such by the London Press) in that it did not adopt either a tariff or a quota scheme to resuscitate Empire trade. Canadian Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett who presented the leading "Empire Tariff-project debated, accepted in chivalrous silence the rebuff of the MacDonald government which, being Socialist, dare not agree to a tariff or any tax on foodstuffs, did agree to maintain the existing system of "limited Empire preference" for three years.

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