Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 183193440X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232093

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 3

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 181 - 253

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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[492 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII receive full recognition in this manner. But at the time Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman was unwilling to accept the proposal and of necessity the project dropped. It had not been revived by any other Dominion, and the resolution as to the constitution of the Colonial Office proposed by Sir Joseph Ward was expressly opposed to the separation of the office at all, for it contemplated merely that the Secretary of State should receive a new title, namely the Secretary of State for Imperial Affairs, and that two permanent Under- Secretaries of State should be created. Of the other resolutions the most important were those (Nos. 3 and 4) which suggested that if any naval contribution was given by a Dominion to the Imperial Government it should be permitted to deduct from the amount of that contribution any sums which it might expend in connexion with naval defence or the creation of naval bases, and that in place of the existing preferences granted by the Dominions, there should be substituted a system of contribution to Imperial naval and local defence. Naturally in this form the last resolution was hardly likely to be acceptable to the Imperial Government. Canada and Australia had definitely recognized responsibility in part at least for their own naval defence, and were creating navies with that end in view, while New Zealand had preferred to make a direct contribu- tion towards the cost of the navy. But in either case there had been no disposition to suggest that the existing pre- ferences should be modified or reduced, and the adoption of the proposal would have been purely disadvantageous to the Imperial Government. The whole proposal was no doubt to be explained by the domestic circumstances of the Union. A direct payment was made by the Cape and Natal towards the cost of the navy, and the Union Government presumably wished to charge against that sum the amounts which it expended in local naval defence on land, and in this form the proposal was obviously reasonable, but to sacrifice for any naval contribu- tion the benefits of the British preference would have been most unfortunate, and the Union Government later with-

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