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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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

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

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1140 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [pArT Vv As for the New Hebrides in particular, I may point out that during the last twenty years at least it has been clearly impossible to discuss the future of the Group, except on the basis of an admitted equality of interests between this country and France ; and I may perhaps add that, according to the testimony of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, of the British Resident in the Group, and of Naval officers who have served there, one of the main reasons why British settlement and British influence in the Islands are not now as large as they might have been, is to be found in the operation of the Australian Customs tariff framed in 1901-2. The views of the Secretary of State did not obtain the full approval of the Governments of the Dominions, and the question was raised again in 1907, when the Colonial Premiers attended the Imperial Conference! It was found possible to obtain the assistance of the New Zealand Government in 1907 in drafting supplemental arrangements on matters of detail with the French Government.? In the case of North America prior to 1906, constant com- plaints were made of British diplomacy, complaints echoed even by the Prime Minister. It was held, though recent investigation has shown without adequate ground, that the Imperial Government had sacrificed Canadian interests both in 1842 as regards the main boundary, and in 1846 as regards the boundary of British Columbia. As a matter of fact, the former treaty represented a very satisfactory compromise, for the negotiators of the Treaty of 1783 had hopelessly given away the British case, and nothing was left but to make the best, and a fairly satisfactory best, of a bad bargain.3 The settlement of the Columbian boundary was governed * Parl. Pap., Cd. 5323, pp. 548-63. * See Parl. Pap., Cd. 3876, p. 23. * See House of Commons Debates, 1907-8, pp. 3954 seq.; 1909-10, pp. 4762 seq.; United Empire, ii. 683 seq.; Macphail, Essays in Politics, pp. 247 seq. These papers form a necessary counterpoise to Hodgins’s works, which are repeated by writers like Jebb without critical examina. tion. Ewart, Kingdom of Canada and The Kingdom Papers (cf. Canadian Annual Review, 1909, pp. 179, 180), is biased by his enthusiasm for Canadian independence. See a sensible view in Henderson's American Diplomatic Questions. It is essential to remember that there are two sides to every dispute, and that in every case the United States have had strong arguments, even if to us they seem less cogent than our own.

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