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In the summer of 1969, while browsing in a bookshop in Nairobi, Kenya, I picked up a copy of A. P. Thornton’s The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies. By the time I returned to New York, I had not only read the book, but was a firm friend of the imperial idea. I was also determined to go to Toronto to study with Professor Thornton. At that time, for an American male, crossing into Canada usually meant putting distance between oneself and the United States Selective Service. However, a minor hearing loss made me undraftable so I was perhaps unique among Americans in that I viewed the border crossing as a way of getting closer to the Empire and into the Commonwealth. I entered graduate school at the University of Toronto in 1970, studying and working with Professor Thornton, until I completed my degree.
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A. P. Thornton, Imperialism in the Twentieth Century (Minneapolis and London, 1977) p. 15.
C. P. Stacey, Canada and the Age of Conflict: a History of Canadian External Policies: Volume I: 1867–1921 (Toronto 1977) pp.209.
C. P. Stacey, Mackenzie King and the Atlantic Triangle (Toronto, 1976) p.66.
C. P. Stacey, ed. Historical Documents of Canada, vol. V: The Arts of War and Peace, 1914–45 (New York, 1972) p.437.
The story of Borden’s role is best told by R. Craig Brown and Robert Bothwell in ‘The “Canadian Resolution”’ in Michael Cross and Robert Bothwell, eds. Policy by Other Means (Toronto, 1972).
Donald Creighton, Canada’s First Century (Toronto, 1970), p.44.
R. MacGregor Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King: a Political Biography, 1874–1923 (Toronto, 1958) p.460,
citing Marchioness Curzon of Keddleston, Reminiscences (London, 1955) p. 183.
See Philip Wigley’s precis of the Chanak Crisis in his Canada and the Transition to Commonwealth: British-Canadian Relations, 1917–26 (Cambridge, 1977) pp. 160–6.
Arthur Berriedale Keith, ed. Speeches and Documents on the British Dominions, 1918–31 (repr. of 1932 ed; London, 1966) p.318.
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Carland, J.M. (1986). Shadow and Substance: Mackenzie King’s Perceptions of British Intentions at the 1923 Imperial Conference. In: Martel, G. (eds) Studies in British Imperial History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18244-2_6
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