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The Commonwealth as Symbol and as Instrument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Robert R. Wilson
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , April 1959 , pp. 392 - 395
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1959

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References

1 G.C.G., ‘’ The Evolution of the Commonwealth,'’ in The British Commonwealth 7 (London: Stevens, 1956).

2 Some of these are the subjects of discussion in Nicholas Mansergh and others, Commonwealth Perspectives, Ch. III : “The Commonwealth and The Law of Nations” (1958); Clute, Robert E. and Wilson, Robert B., “The Commonwealth and Favoml- Nation Usage,” 52 A.J.I.L. 455-468 (1958)Google Scholar; Wilson, Eobert B., “Some Questions of Legal Belations between Commonwealth Members,” 51 A.J.I.L. 611-617 (1957).Google Scholar

3 Frederic W. Eggleston, Reflections on Australian Foreign Policy 187 (1957).

4 Robert Garran, Prosper the Commonwealth 331, 332 (1958).

5 Gordon Greenwood and Norman Harper (eds.), Australia in World Affairs, 1950- 1955, p. 29 (1957). Cf. the statement by the present Foreign Minister of Australia that the Commonwealth of Nations “has no set of universally recognized rules or even conventions.” B. G. Casey, Friends and Neighbors 32 (1955).

6 See discussion in Fred Alexander, “The 1956 Commonwealth Conference,” 28 Australian Quarterly 9-16, at 10 (1956).

7 27 Current Notes on International Affairs 454 (Department of External Affairs, Australia, 1956).

8 The Canberra Times, Dec. 5, 1958, p. 1.

9 Ibid., Dec. 9, 1958, p. 14.

10 Gordon Greenwood and Norman Harper, op. cit. 88.

11 1 Oppenheim, International Law 198 (8th ed., 1955).

12 Fred Alexander, loc. cit. 11, 12.

13 See Bobert Gordon Menzies, Speech Is of Time 28 (1958) (a reproduction of a statement first published in The Times (London) in June, 1956).

14 Minutes of Proceedings of the Colonial Conference, 1907, Cd. 3523, at p. 27.

15 21 Current Notes on International Affairs 165, 166 (Department of External Affairs, Australia, 1950).

16 Robert Gordon Menzies, op. cit. 30.

17 On some of the possible difficulties in connection with a “minister resident” plan for the Commonwealth, as seen by a former Prime Minister of Australia, see W. M. Hughes, The Splendid Adventure 258-269 (1929).