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As the Commonwealth ceased to be ‘British’ its endeavours became increasingly ‘global’. On the day of his election as Secretary-General in 1965 Smith rebutted cynical journalists with the words, ‘We all need to learn to share a planet’. Ramphal, responding to his election in 1975, spoke of ‘advancing the wider human dialogue’.1 By the 1979 edition of The Commonwealth Today there was a section on ‘Serving Global Goals’ which suggested that: ‘As the Commonwealth has grown to be more representative of the world and its diversities, its leaders have seen increasing opportunities to serve the global community in the search for solutions to issues which are of particular concern to the Commonwealth’.2 This tendency towards the ‘globalization’ of Commonwealth concerns has become marked in many spheres.
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R. Kay (ed.), Documents on New Zealand External Relations, vol. III, The ANZUS Pact and the Treaty with Japan (Wellington: Historical Publications Branch, 1985), pp. 475–798.
See M. J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952 (Cambridge: University Press, 1987).
See P. Lyon, ‘The emergence of the Third World’, in H. Bull and A. Watson, The Expansion of International Society (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 229–37.
D. C. Kousoulas, Power and Influence: An Introduction to International Relations (Monterey: Brooks/Cole, 1985) p. 158.
See R. D. Putnam and N. Bayne, Hanging Together: Cooperation and Conflict in the Seven-Power Summits (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987).
W. Dale, The Modern Commonwealth (London: Butterworths, 1983), pp. 42, 49.
R. Gwyn, ‘Guest View’, Commonwealth Newsletter, 18 Oct. 1989, P. 5.
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McIntyre, W.D. (1991). Global Concerns and Commonwealth Principles. In: The Significance of the Commonwealth, 1965–90. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377103_5
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