Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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-

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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cHAP. X] MILITARY AND NAVAL DEFENCE 1289 resolutions come to and proposals approved by the Conference which has now been held must be taken, so far as the delegates of the Dominions are concerned, to be ad referendum, and of no binding force unless and until submitted to their various Parliaments. I should add, in special reference to the delegates from South Africa, that they did not feel themselves in a position, in regard to either naval or military defence, to submit or to approve positive proposals until the Union of South Africa was an accomplished fact. With this preface I will briefly summarize the main conclusions of the Conference in regard, irst to Military, and next to Naval, Defence. After the main Conference at the Foreign Office, a Military Conference took place at the War Office, and resulted in an agreement on the fundamental principles set out in Papers which had been prepared by the General Staff for considera- tion by the Delegates. The substance of these Papers (which will be included among the Papers to be published) was a recommendation that, without impairing the complete control of the Government of each Dominion over the military forces raised within it, these forces should be standardized, the formation of units, the arrangements for transport, the patterns of weapons, &c., being asfar as possible assimilated to those which have recently been worked out for the British Army. Thus, while the Dominion troops would in each case be raised for the defence of the Dominion concerned, it would be made readily practicable in case of need for that Dominion to mobilize and use them for the defence of the Empire as a whole. The Military Conference then entrusted to a Sub-Confer- ence, consisting of military experts at head-quarters and from the various Dominions, and presided over by Sir W. Nicholson, acting for the first time in the capacity of Chiet of the Imperial General Staff, the duty of working out the detailed application of these principles. I may point out here that the creation early this year of an Imperial General Staff, thus brought into active working, is a result of the discussions and resolutions of the Conference of 1907. Complete agreement was reached by the members of the Sub-Conference, and their conclusions were finally approved by the main Conference and by the Com- mittee of Imperial Defence, which sat for the purpose under the presidency of the Prime Minister. The result is a plan for 80 organizing the forces of the Crown wherever they are that, while preserving the complete autonomy of each

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