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In the various moves to secure recognition and support for the role of the ‘Unofficial Commonwealth’ there were suggestions that this appellation was itself inappropriate. A conference on ‘The Potential of the Unofficial Networks’ in June 1988 expressed the view that the phrase ‘non-government organizations’ was too negative. There should be a way of describing such organizations which did not simply see them in relation to governments.1 The phrase ‘Unofficial Commonwealth’ is obviously open to the same objection. In recent years, new styles have been sought to highlight the positive contributions of the voluntary and private organizations. There have been references to an ‘association of peoples’2 or a ‘Peoples’ Commonwealth’.3 Some commentators have preferred ‘informal sector’4 or ‘organic Commonwealth’.5 Anthony Low threw the net wider with ‘personal, professional and philanthropic’ concerns.6 Ron Crocombe has stressed the voluntary, non-political and non-profit aspect by his use of ‘voluntary agencies’ (VolAgs) and ‘private voluntary organizations’ (PVDs).7
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Anthony Low, ‘Commonwealth Policy Studies: Is there a case for a centre?’ R.T., 1988, 308: 369.
Unpublished typescript by R. G. Crocombe, NGOs: Voluntary organisations in Pacific Development. A Preliminary Report (University of the South Pacific: Institute of Pacific Studies, 1988).
See T. R. Reese, The History of the Royal Commonwealth Society 1888–1968 (London: Oxford University Press, 1968).
See P. Longworth, The Unending Vigil: A History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 1914–1984 (London: Leo Cooper and Seeker & Warburg, 1967).
J. M. McKenzie, ‘The Imperial Institute’, RT, 1987, 302: 246–53
J. M. McKenzie, Policy Review of the Commonwealth Institute (London: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Oct. 1985).
See John Kendle, The Round Table and Imperial Union (Toronto: University Press, 1975)
Leonie Foster, High Hopes: The men and motives of the Australian Round Table (Melbourne: University Press, 1986).
Bill Renwick, ‘The Commonwealth of Learning’, New Zealand External Relations Review, 1989, 39 (3): 27.
L. Gregory, With a Song and not a Sword (London: Comex 1973), p. 21.
Gregory, Crying Drums: The Story of Comex, the Commonwealth Expedition (London: Allen & Unwin, 1972), and Together Unafraid (London: Robert Hale, 1979).
J. Mackenzie, ‘Commonwealth Art and Soul’, Art Links, 1979, 1, p. 8.
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McIntyre, W.D. (1991). Peoples. In: The Significance of the Commonwealth, 1965–90. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377103_13
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