Commonwealth: A History of the British Commonwealth of Nations

1973 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-321
Author(s):  
J. E. S. Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
British Commonwealth Of Nations

Newfoundland Reverts to the Status of a Colony

1934 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 895-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. MacKay
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
British Empire ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Responsible Government ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
British Commonwealth Of Nations

Newfoundland, which proudly boasts that she is “Britain's oldest colony,” which has enjoyed responsible government since 1855, and which has been ranked by the Statute of Westminister as one of the Dominions of the British Commonwealth of Nations, voluntarily reverted to the status of a crown colony governed by a commission responsible to Whitehall. The event is without precedent in the history of the Empire. While certain West Indian colonies which have enjoyed representative assemblies have voluntarily given up their elected legislatures, no colony which had attained responsible government has ever before renounced it. The incident is sufficiently unique to be of interest alike to students of the history of the British Empire and of political science in general.

scholarly journals Address of the president Sir Henry Dale, C. B. E. Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1942

1943 ◽  
Vol 131 (864) ◽  
pp. 204-206
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Written Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mechanical Interpretation ◽  
Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
British Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
The Universe

We are to-day within a few weeks of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Isaac Newton. Wherever the progress of our Western science and philosophy has become effective, men will remember what that event was to mean for the world. Newton, as we shall hear, at the age of 43, when he had determined to abandon all further concern with natural philosophy, was induced at length, by Halley’s friendly insistence, to give written form and system to the mathematical discoveries with which his amazing mind had been occupied over a period of some twenty years. The result was one of the greatest intellectual achievements in the history of mankind—the Principia , providing for more than two centuries a framework for the mechanical interpretation of the universe and a basis for the building of physical science, and therewith of the material structure of our modern civiliza­tion. We in Britain regard Isaac Newton as still, beyond challenge, the greatest of our men of science. Nor should the claim be limited to this island or to the British Commonwealth of Nations; for it was not till nearly half a century after Newton’s death that former British colonists in North America began their development of an independent nation; and Newton is theirs as well as ours.

Is the British Commonwealth Withering Away?

1950 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Wheare
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Autonomous Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
British Commonwealth Of Nations

At a great crisis in the history of the American Commonwealth, Abraham Lincoln in a speech delivered in June, 1858, used these words: “If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.” The British Commonwealth has reached a crisis in its affairs, but the nature of the crisis escapes the diagnosis of most students and many are inclined, therefore, to echo the words which Lincoln used nearly a hundred years ago. It seems worth while, accordingly, to set down as simply as possible some of the changes that have occurred in the structure and composition of the Commonwealth in recent years, in the hope that, on this basis, some judgment may be hazarded about “where we are and whither we are tending.”When the War ended in 1945 the British Commonwealth could still be described in the terms adopted almost twenty years before, at the Imperial Conference of 1926, as a group of “autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations.”

Commonwealth: A History of the British Commonwealth of Nations

1975 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 1339
Author(s):  
Robin W. Winks ◽  
H. Duncan Hall ◽  
Robert Menzies
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Commonwealth Of Nations ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
British Commonwealth Of Nations
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