Notation
Will Schreiner's reply to the 'conference question' in the Manchester Guardian cannot be established with any certainty. However, a 6 March report of a speech he had given to the Cambridge Unversity Liberal Club on 'Nationality and Empire' concerned his thoughts about a proposed Imperial Council, what its powers might be and how it would relate to the self-governing countries which compposed its membership. See Manchester Guardian 8 March 1915 (p.10). The beginning of the article from The Nation which Schreiner had attached states that: "The Australian Premier's [Hughes} long visit to Europe has come to an end. The ties which bind the Empire together are not of such tender growth that we need to pretend, for fear of severing them, to regret his departure. On the whole he has set an example for future visitors - whether from the Dominions to this country or vice versa - of how not to do it...".