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The most significant landmark in the organisation of the modern Commonwealth was the creation of the Secretariat in 1965. Strong support for the proposal from the new African members took the ‘old’ Commonwealth members by surprise.1 Yet the idea was not a new one; there had been similar proposals from Australia in 1907, 1924, 1932 and 1944 and New Zealanders had suggested a central council in 1909 and 1956. The earlier proposals were largely aimed at gaining direct links with the British government untrammelled by Whitehall departments handling the routines of colonial administration.
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McIntyre, ‘Canada and the Creation of the Commonwealth Secretariat, 1965’, International Journal [Toronto] (1998) 53(4): 753–77; ‘Britain and the Creation of the Commonwealth Secretariat’, JICH (2000), (28): 135–58.
On earlier proposals, see B. Vivekanandan, ‘The Commonwealth Secretariat’, International Studies [New Delhi], 1968 9(3): 302–8.
R. Hyam, ‘Bureaucracy and “Trusteeship” in the Colonial Empire’, in J. M. Brown and W. R. Louis (eds.), The Oxford History of the British Empire [OHBE], vol. 4, The Twentieth Century (Oxford, 1999), pp. 255–65.
H. D. Hall, Commonwealth (London, 1971), p. 588.
McIntyre, ‘The Admission of Small States to the Commonwealth’, JICH, 1996 (24)2: 244–77.
‘Patriotism Based on Reality, Not on Dreams?’, The Times, 2 April 1964, p. 13. Powell finally admitted to the authorship in 1997. S. Heffer, Like The Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (London, 1998), pp. 350–1.
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McIntyre, W.D. (2001). The Secretariat and the 1971 Declaration. In: A Guide to the Contemporary Commonwealth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403900951_5
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