Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Identifikator:: 1892063557

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1891-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1892071819

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236181

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Neueste Zeit

Volume count:: Abt. 3

Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

Publisher:: Heyfelder

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: IX S., S. [303] - 729

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Neue Dichtung

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1256 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [paRrTV (Governor, who had returned to London after his retirement from the Governorship of the Colony, and from others, had no effect, and the troops were finally withdrawn in 1869.1 The only conclusion which can fairly be drawn from the circumstances is that the use of Imperial troops by a Colonial Government can hardly ever be successful. Incidentally it was proposed by the War Office that the officer commanding the Imperial troops should be given full control over the Colonial forces employed during the hostilities. To this proposal exception was promptly taken by the Colonial Office, which laid stress on the fact that it would be a contradiction of the policy of leaving the Colony to deal with questions of itself, if the Imperial Government claimed direction of the operations, and that the only claim which could possibly be made was that the Imperial officer, while actually engaged in operations which were being sonducted jointly by Imperial and Colonial troops, should take command of the joint forces.? Circumstances in the case of South Africa have been decidedly different. The South African Colonies have always formed a portion, and one not in recent years, in extent of territory, the most considerable, of the British possessions in South Africa. Even at the present time it is essential to maintain a garrison in South Africa for the safety of the British possessions and Protectorates, though it was the desire of the Imperial Government in 1869 to 1872, when they urged upon the Government of the Cape to accept responsible government, to withdraw gradually from the Cape all the Imperial forces stationed therein with the exception of a regiment for the protection of the naval station at Simon’s Bay.? This aspiration was never, how- ever, carried out, for the years after responsible government were not merely years of growing difficulty with the native population, culminating in the efforts of the Cape to control L See Parl. Pap., H. C. 307, 1869, and C. 83. ' Parl. Pap., H. C. 307, 1869, p. 443. ! Parl. Pap., C. 459, 708, 732. Cf. Lord Blachford’s article in the Nineteenth Century, August 1879, pp. 271 seq.

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