cHAP. Xx] MILITARY AND NAVAL DEFENCE 1267 
Australasia ; the Monroe doctrine and friendly relations with 
the United States diminish risks of war, and the French- 
Canadians dread militarism ; compulsory training is there- 
fore not at present conceivable, though, in theory, all males 
from 18 to 60 are liable to be trained, and in war a levy en 
masse is possible. It is also provided that the Commander-in- 
Chief in the Mediterranean, an officer of high rank, shall have 
as a part of his functions the duty of visiting and advising 
Dominion Governments if they desire his advice at any time. 
Besides this should be mentioned the scheme for a general 
army staff called the Imperial General Staff, consisting of 
Imperial and Dominion officers. There is no attempt to 
control the Dominions, but it is hoped that the whole staff 
will in harmony work together at collecting intelligence, 
creating plans of campaign, and mastering all the thousand 
matters which constitute the intellectual preparation for 
war. It isthe purpose to constitute branches of the Imperial 
General Staff in each Dominion ; the branch shall correspond 
direct with the Imperial General Staff at the War Office, and 
50 be in close touch with it, and an officer from each Dominion 
is to be attached to the Imperial General Staff in the War 
Office. The General Staff in each Dominion shall be autono- 
mous and in no way under the control of the Imperial 
General Staff, but the whole object of establishing the General 
Staff is to secure the advantages of co-operating. Officers 
of the Dominions, it is hoped, will also be attached at times 
to the War Office as part of the Imperial General Staff, and 
similarly the General Staff in the Dominions should consist 
in part of officers from the War Office and the Imperial army, 
so that there may be at home a staff well acquainted with 
the conditions of the Colonies and a staff in the Dominions 
well acquainted with the conditions of Imperial military 
preparations. This seems to offer as regards matters military 
by far the best chance of a suitable settlement of a method 
it was to be effective training must be insisted upon and the proportions of 
the forces adjusted, and a definite line of policy fixed upon and acted on. 
He praised highly the Military College, as Major-General Edwards had 
done in 1889. See alse Canadian Annual Review, 1909, pp. 275-88; 
1910, pp. 585-95. + See Parl. Pap., Cd. 5019, 5598.