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The wartime trend towards decentralisation continued with increasing momentum after the war. It was implicit in Commonwealth attitudes towards the new international organisation, and explicit in Commonwealth reconsideration of constitutional forms, more especially those of citizenship and Crown.
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W. K. Hancock, Smuts, (2 vols), Cambridge, 1967, vol. 2, pp. 431–3.
The text of the legislation on nationality and citizenship in all parts of the Commonwealth is grouped with comment upon its purposes in N. Mansergh, Documents and Speeches on British Commonwealth Affairs, 1921–1952, (2 vols), London, 1954, vol. 2, section xix and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1962 (10 and 11 Eliz. 2, c. 21).
The text of the legislation on nationality and citizenship in all parts of the Commonwealth is grouped with comment upon its purposes in N. Mansergh, Documents and Speeches on British Commonwealth Affairs, 1921–1952, (2 vols), London, 1954, vol. 2, section xix and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1962 (10 and 11 Eliz. 2, c. 21) is reprinted in N. Mansergh, Documents and Speeches on Commonwealth Affairs, 1952 –62, London, 1963, pp. 741–7.
Mansergh and Moon (eds), India, The Transfer of Power, 1942–47, London 1970, vol. xi, nos. 445, 481, 488, 492, 494, 531, 543 and 555.
Michael McInerney, ‘Mr John A. Costello Remembers’, in The Irish Times, 8 September 1967.
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Mansergh and Moon (eds), India, The Transfer of Power 1942–47, London, 1970-, vol. xi, no. 121 for the minutes and conclusions of the India and Burma Committee of the Cabinet.
H. Tinker, The Union of Burma, (4th ed.), London, 1967, pp. 22–7. The relevant documents are reprinted in Mansergh, Documents and Speeches, 1931–1952, vol. 2, pp. 760–93.
Joe Garner, The Commonwealth Office 1925–68, London, 1978, p. 318.
S. Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru. A Biography, London, 1979, vol. 2, p. 47.
P. Gordon Walker, The Commonwealth, London, 1962, p. 183.
J. W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, London, 1958, p. 722.
Reprinted in Mansergh, Documents and Speeches on Commonwealth Affairs, 1952–1962, London, 1963, pp. 304–6.
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Mansergh, N. (1982). Constitutional Transformation, Irish Republican Secession, Indian Republican Accession and the Changing Position of the Crown. In: The Commonwealth Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16952-8_5
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