Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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296 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [part 11 that the natives were or were not probably guilty, and in time of apparently profound peace in South Africa the execution of twelve natives by a sentence of a court martial seemed a strange step. The error of the Governor about the prerogative of mercy was a curious one, though none of his ministers evidently saw it. But it is hard to defend the action of the Natal Government, because they must have recognized that the Imperial Government had a strong right to intervene, if they thought fit, since there were Imperial forces in the Colony serving the important purpose of keeping the Colony quiet, and available for any emergency if the Colonial forces had suffered a serious defeat. To resign and plunge the Government of Natal into the weakness of an interregnum, or rather to leave the Governor without any effective Ministry, for there was no chance then of an alternative Ministry—was an action which cannot be felt to be other than ill-advised and precipitate, and it throws doubt on the arguments in favour of the granting of self-govern- ment to the Colony in 1893. At the very least, they should have communicated with the Imperial Government setting out their views, and have waited for a reply before they pub- lished to the world the dispute between the Governments. In 1907 a different example occurred: in that year, in view of the hopeless differences with the Government of the United States regarding the rights of American fishermen in the waters of Newfoundland, it was agreed to submit the questions at issue to the arbitrament of the Hague Tribunal. In the meantime a modus vivendi was necessary, but the local Government would not consent to it, and it was found necessary to override the Government by an Order in Council issued under an Act of 1819, which was of course thirteen years before the Government of Newfoundland was formally constituted on a representative basis. The action was strong but necessary. It was received with great indignation in the Colony, and his opponents taunted the Premier and said he should resign: but Sir Robert Bond maintained that resignation was not the proper attitude for a Colonial Govern- ment, but submission so far as was absolutely inevitable,

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