1. The Collapse of European Empires
... however, still remaining the Mother of the Empire and Commonwealth. Ceylon is an example of the transfer of a colony to a member of the Commonwealth and Lord Addison remarked that: "the first occasion in which a colony developing this system of self-government of its own accord, has deliberately sought to become a Dominion state in our Commonwealth," but we hope and expect that it ... will not be the last." To add to this, the general declaration by Malcolm Macdonald in 1939 supports the basis that the self-governance process and gradual decolonisation was all intended by the British gov...
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