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Ed Harris (Venezia)

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Date Posted: 12:40:39 11/19/04 Fri
In reply to: kevin 's message, "huh? What's that?" on 06:36:21 11/19/04 Fri

That would be the 1931 (is that right) statute which came out of the Imperial Conference, which opened the way for the fragmentation of the Empire by giving full autonomy as separate countries "within the Empire" to the five parts of the British Empire which were inhabited by British people - the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Only New Zealand really didn't want it, and went along just because they didn't want to show imperial disunity - something of an irony, there, I think. "Yeah, let's go along with this policy which institutionalised imperial disunity, so as not to cause imperial disunity." Still, there you go.

I believe that the previous Statue of Westinster was an Act of the 1760s which tolerated and gave rights to French Catholics living in British North America. This did not go down well with the puritan-leaning protestants who inhabited a certain thirteen colonies to the south, and added to dossier of grievances which the colonial assemblies were already compiling against Parliament. Still, serves us right for oppressing people, I suppose.

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Author: Roberdin [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 16:17:56 11/22/04 Mon Yes, that is the correct date. If you're bored, you may read the full text of the Statute here, but beware that it is written in a form of English that will not suffer fools gladly: Statute of Westminster, 1931 [ Post a Reply to This Message ]