To a despatch ( 22 Oct 1903 ) of Lord Curzon 's government deprecating participation in the imperial preference policy , which Joseph Chamberlain had begun to advocate , Law appended a dissenting minute . Law 's minute was used in party discussions in Great Britain and the colonies , and was cited with approval by Alfred Deakin , prime minister of Australia at the 1907 Imperial Conference ( Official Report of Conf . 1907 )
1907 Imperial Conference
1907 Imperial Conference
Edward FitzGerald Law