Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-31
CANADIAN POLICIES
! IN WORLD AFFAIRS
Parliament win Decide Many
/ Vital Matters Next
Month.
DISCUSS GEDDES' RECALL
Canada's Part in League, japanese
Question and Tariff Will
Be Taken Up.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OTTAWA, January 31.-The part
which Canada will play in the league
of nations will likely be discussed at
the session of the Dominion parlia-
ment at Ottawa, which opens next
month.
The recent covenant at Geneva for es-
Establishment of an international court
of justice is to be subscribed to by the
government. but it will be submitted
TO parliament for ratification. When
this is done group or commission
will be constituted to nominate Cana
dian representatives on the proposed
court. the election to be made by the
council and assembly of the league.
AS the position calls for judicial quail
fications, c.. J. Doherty, minister of
justice. is prominently mentioned in
connection with it when the ultimate
nominations are made.
There is considerable speculation
regarding Sir Auckland GeddeS' pres
ent visit to London. and his confer
ence at Paris with Lloyd George. In
some quarters it is anticipated that
MIR. Harding will be invited to assist
in instituting an Anglo-American con-
ference of the highest authoritative
character. to make joint proposals for
mutual governmental consideration.
THE naval and general policy of
Japan and the Anglo-Japanese alliance
WILL" says London cable to the Mon
treal Star. be very much in the mind
of this conference. Informed by these
proposals, British ministers will be
prepared to put the whole case for
consideration before the Canadian and
other ministers at the imperial confer
ence next June. British naval and
other policies will be guided by the
Impressions which that imperial con-
ference makes upon the British minis
tiers and the British parliament, leav-
ing the ministers and the parliaments
of Canada and the other dominions to
act as they think best in their-own
circumstances and way. The supreme
political desire of the premier at the
moment is to get world peace estab-
hshed and British finance reconstructed.
Tariff Matters.
II the fate of the Fordney bill is not
definitely decided at Washington be-
fore then, parliament will undoubtedly,
refer to it. Retaliation is being urged,
but more with the idea of encouraging
less buying in the states and more in
Canada, so as to provide work for
Canadian workmen, than with any rea I
hope of materially 1essening the
amount this country spends across the
line.
Senator G. D. Robertson, Canada's
minister of labor, this week threw
out hint respecting this matter,
when dealing with the problem of
unemployment.
"It is obviously" he said, 1.-THE duty
of Canadians to buy enough to keep
things moving and to buy Canadian
made goods. If each Individual does
his share in this, the unemployment
Question will be speedily solved.
canadian people must realize that
they have much of the solution of the
unemployment question in their own
hands. From October Is to December
81 last about $4,000 men were laid
off in Canada by 400 employers
Eliminating Sundays from that time
1t meant that every night 1000 men
went to their homes with no job to
go to the next day. And this in face