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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1510 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII view of the frankness with which the Imperial Government had taken the Dominion Ministers into their confidence, that there should be some subsidiary body to facilitate closer communication, and he agreed that such a body, if estab- lished, should be purely advisory. Mr. Batchelor 1 thought that the advisability of such a standing committee was not open to doubt, especially in view of the fact that no question could be referred to the committee without the consent of all the Dominion Governments. But General Botha? was quite unable to accept the proposal. He pointed out that the object of the Conference required the attendance of members of ministerial standing, and that it would be unsatisfactory if some ministers sent their High Commissioners to represent them and others were represented by ministers. He was wholly in favour of subsidiary Conferences to which ministers would be sent, but he could not accept a standing committee which would interfere in any way with the work of the responsible Governments. Sir Edward Morris3 shared General Botha’s view. Nothing could be done with the proposed committee which could not be done by the various public departments in correspondence with the Dominions through the Colonial Office. Conferences were not able really to do much work directly ; the present Conference had had a comprehensive agenda put before it, but the net result would probably only be one or two important matters which were not on the agenda at all. To set up the proposed body would lead to circumlocution and confusion. Sir Wilfrid Laurier ¢ viewed with serious apprehension the intervention of any body whatever between the Home Government and the Governments of the Dominions. The relations between the Dominions and the Mother Country should be carried on directly by the Governments themselves. The organization of the Colonial Office had given ample satisfaction, and he thought that matters should be left as they were. The views of South Africa were reinforced by Mr. Malan,” who thought that the committee would lower Cd. 5745, p. 176. ® Ibid., pp. 177-9. Ibid., pp. 177, 180. * Ibid., pp. 180, 181. 5 Tbid., pp. 182, 183.

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