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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1512 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII by the Prime Minister to be impossible in practice : there were 27,000 papers a year to be dealt with, of which 1,000 must go before the political head of the office, and no Prime Minister could face the duty. Sir J. Ward also withdrew his proposed change of the title of the Secretary of State.! The Conference then discussed the question of the inter- change of civil servants which was brought forward by Sir Joseph Ward,? viz. ‘ That it is in the interests of the Imperial Government and also of the Governments of the overseas Dominions, that an interchange of selected officers of the respective Civil Services should take place from time to time with a view to the acquirement of better knowledge for both services with regard to questions that may arise affecting the respective Governments. Mr. Harcourt sym- pathized with the view that there should be greater mutual knowledge, but he dealt upon the difficulties which lay in the way of a formal interchange of civil servants. If, however, any Dominion Government sent over representatives and attached them to the High Commissioners’ Office, they would be given full facilities to become acquainted with the work of the different public departments. Similarly, mem- bers of the Colonial Office had been attached to the staff of the Governors-General of the Union of South Africa, the Dominion of Canada, and the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Colonial Office would have the advantage of their knowledge and experience when they returned, while visits had been paid to some of the Dominions by Sir Charles Lucas and Mr. Just. He would be glad also to afford any further assistance possible to the Dominion Governments. Mr. Batchelor for the Commonwealth of Australia accepted the view of Mr. Harcourt, and the resolution wag therefore adopted with the substitution of © visits ’ for the proposal of interchange. * The dislike to the word Colony as applied to self-governing dominions, though real (cf. Ewart, The Kingdom Papers, pp. 20-2, and Mr. Lynch’s successful blocking of a Governor’s Pension Bill which used the term in 1911), is not very intelligible to Englishmen, and de facto Dominion Ministries constantly use it. Dominion has no adjectival equivalent. * Ibid., pp. 194-6.

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