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DOCUMENTS AND £SPEECHES ON’ BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS, 1931-1952, edited by Nicholas Mansergh for the Royal Institute of International Affairs; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 2 vols., English price 84/-. PROFESSOR MANSERGH’S recent survey of British Commonwealth Affairs (1931-1952): Vol. 1, Problems of External Policy (1931-39), succeeded the famous work on the same subject for the inter-war period by Sir Keith Hancock. The present documents are intended to illustrate this volume and the one that is to follow, and excellently they appear to do so. They are also in time to serve as basic material for the unofficial Commonwealth Relations Conference being held at Lahore in Pakistan this March and attended by both these scholars. The disappearance of the structural unity of the Commonwealth into sovereign-some of them republi-can-parts makes information about it so much harder to come by as it is increasingly important to have. New Zealand is fairly represented here on constitutional, economic, defence, foreign policy, Commonwealth co-operation, United Nations, and Colombo Plan themes. If there are any lines more moving in all these 1300 close-packed pages than Mr. Savage’s noble "We are only a small and a young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers," spoken on the outbreak of the war, they must be those of Mr. Mackenzie King acclaiming in 1944 the British Empire as "a model of what we hope the whole world will some day become," in» words used by Mr. Churchill as Under-Secre-tary for the Colonies 37 years earlier.
W.F.
Monk
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 14
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255MATERIALS OF HISTORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 14
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