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 VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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CHAP. II] IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION 1477 for keeping all records both of the Council and the Commis- sion, The proposals made both as to title and the permanent Commission were welcomed by the Governments of the Cape and Natal. The Government of Australia also con- curred both in the proposed formation of an Imperial Council and a permanent Commission, and on such a Commission they considered that the Government of Australia should be allowed two representatives at least, one of whom should be the High Commissioner when appointed, or his substitute. The Government of Newfoundland were not convinced that the time had yet come to carry out the proposals suggested in Mr. Lyttelton’s dispatch. They were inclined to think that such an Imperial Council would necessarily acquire or possess a certain degree of executive authority, and Newfoundland was not in a position to take any positive steps either to contribute towards the cost of the defence of the Empire as a whole, or to give a preference in commercial matters, a reference to the Hay—Bond Convention of 1902. The Government of New Zealand were not able to reply, and the Government of Canada, in a reasoned minute of November 13, 1905, were somewhat adverse to the scheme. The remarks of the Canadian Government were as follows 1 :—— The Committee at the outset are disposed to consider that any change in the title or status of the Colonial Conference should rather originate with, and emanate from, that body itself. At the same time, being fully alive to the desire of His Majesty's Government to draw closer the ties uniting the Colonies with each other and with the Motherland, they are prepared to give the proposals referred to their respectful consideration, and having done so, beg leave to offer the following observations :— Your excellency’s advisers are entirely at one with His Majesty’s Government in believing that political institutions ‘may often be wisely left to develop in accordance with circumstances and, as it were, of their own accord ’, and it is for this reason that they entertain with some doubt the proposal to change the name of the Colonial Conference to v Parl. Pap., Cd. 2785, p. 14; Jebb, op. cit., ii. 7-24.

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