ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the British imperial problems in the light of the World War in the correct appreciation of war events and war conditions in relation to the political situation confronting the empire at home and overseas. The British empire grew to its present dimensions because it paid the English to have overseas possessions. Canada, which was becoming preponderantly an English-speaking country neighboring on the United States and developing in the same way as the United States, could never have been kept within the British Empire on any other basis than that of autonomous, representative institutions. Canada and the dominions have established their claim to complete tariff autonomy, but, because of trade advantages, are willing to grant imperial preference in their tariff schedules. The dominions made it clear that the growing power of Japan was a menace, and that their policy was that the British Empire should seek an understanding with the United States.
