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The Functional Approach to Political Union: Lessons from the Effort to Federate the British Caribbean Territories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Jesse Harris Proctor Jr
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The effort to federate the British Caribbean Territories has involved the use of a method much discussed in connection with the federation of states—the functional approach. From this experience can be derived lessons concerning that approach which would seem to be of value to the consideration of the problem of international federation.

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International Organization , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 1956 , pp. 35 - 48
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1956

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1 They constitute thirty-six percent of Trinidad's population and nearly half of British Guiana's. SirBurns, Alan, “Towards a Caribbean Federation,” Foreign Affairs, 10 1955 (Vol. 34). p. 129CrossRefGoogle Scholar. This article provides a further discussion of several of the diversities and attitudes here alluded to.

2 146 H.C. Deb., 4s, c. 720.

3 Parliamentary Papers, 1946–47, Cmd. 7120, Closer Association of the British West Indian Colonies, Appendix 1, p. 17.

4 For a fuller description of the development of functional collaboration, see Proudfoot, Mary, Britain and the United States in the Caribbean, New York, 1954, p. 18–20, 341–349Google Scholar.

5 Colonial No. 255, 1950, Report of the British Caribbean Standing Closer Association Committee 1948–49, P. 54.

6 Barbados Advocate, March 18, 1953.

7 Parliamentary Papers, 1947–48, Cmd. 7291, Conference on the Closer Association of the British West Indian Colonies, Part I: Report, p. 3. The other was the improvement in intercolonial air services.

8 Ibid., p. 4.

9 St. Lucia Legislative Council Minutes, August 21, 1945, p. 7.

10 Jamaica House of Representatives Proceedings, August 8, 1951, p. 312.

11 Jamaica Legislative Council Proceedings, September 21, 1951, p. 70–71.

12 Trinidad Legislative Council Debates, July 28, 1950, p. 1166–1167; May 5, 1952, p. 1756, 1758. For his remarks along the same line at Bay, Montego, see Col. No. 218, 1948, Conference on the Closer Association of the British West Indian Colonies, Part 2: Proceedings, p. 29Google Scholar.

13 Cmd. 7120, p. 10–11.

14 British Guiana Legislative Council Debates, March 10, 1948, c. 656.

15 167 H.C. Deb., 5s, c. 492, July 25, 1923; Parliamentary Papers, 1932–1933, Cmd. 4383, Report of the Closer Union Commission (Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Trinidad and Tabago), p. 22–23.

16 Parliamentary Papers, 1944–1945, Cmd. 6656, West India Royal Commission 1938–39—Statement of Action Taken on the Recommendations, p. 97.

17 Cmd. 7120, p. 11.

18 Col. No. 218, p. 88.

19 Barbados Legislative Council Proceedings, February 24, 1948; Barbados Official Gazette Supplement, v. 83, May 24, 1948, p. 56–57.

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21 Col. No. 268, 1951, Report of the Commission on the Establishment of a Customs Union in tie British Caribbean Area 1948–50, p. 3.

22 498 H.C. Deb., 5s, c. 383, March 26, 1952.

23 Trinidad L.C. Deb., May 2, 1952, p. 1654.

24 Report of Committee Appointed by His Excellency the Governor to Consider West Indian Currency Arrangements, Jamaica L.C. Min., v. 4, 1948–1949, Appendix 66, p. 1.

25 Ibid.; Jamaica H.R. Proc, January 19, 1949, p. 16–18; Jamaica L.C. Proc, February 25, 1949, p. 92.

26 Col. No. 212, 1947, Development and Welfare in the West Indies 1945–46, p. 29.

27 Despatch from Sir Hubert Rance, September 1, 1948, Jamaica L.C. Min. v. 5, 1949, Appendix 26, Annexure I, p. 7.

28 Report of Conference (1) Proposed Trade Commissioner Service in the United Kingdom (2) Proposed Regional Economic Committee Held at Hastings House, Barbados on 1st, 2nd and 3rd February 1949, Jamaica I..C. Min., v. 5, 1949, Appendix 26, p. 2.

29 Col. No. 291, 1953, Development and Welfare in the West Indies 1952, p. 10.

30 Col. No. 218, p. 59.

31 Ibid., p. 97.

32 Col. No. 255, p. 51.

33 Ibid.

34 Barbados L.C. Proc, March 3, 1953, Barbados Official Gaz. Supp., v. 88, May 11, 1953, p. 264.

35 British Guiana L.C. Deb., November 30, 1951, c. 433–434.

36 Col. No. 255, p. 51.

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