when news of the european war reached the usa

Mackenzie King is the third dominion prime minister to visit London since the war began and the third to attend meetings of Britain's War Cabinet. In the opinion of the Evening News, the empire could not “rest content with brief scattered visits of busy men.” Continuous consultation between the home government and the dominions was needed for effective joint action. “We need the empire's best minds for winning the war and for the world-wide task of reconstruction afterwards,” said the London Star. Mackenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister, in London in mid-August touched off a British press campaign in which the Churchill government was urged to call an imperial conference as a means of increasing collaboration between the dominions and the mother country and of giving recognition to the new status of the dominions as major allies of the United Kingdom. The increasingly important role being played by British dominions in the prosecution of the war is expected sooner or later to result in action by the British government to give the dominions a greater voice in the formulation of imperial war policy and in the direction of the war effort. Demand for closer imperial collaboration British Press Campaign for Imperial War Conference

When news of the european war reached the usa