Winston Churchill, the British secretary of state for the colonies, believed in the principle of paying Paul by robbing Paul. Britain controlled 70% of the world's production of rubber from its plantations in the colonies of Malaya and Ceylon. America, because of its large automobile industry,...
Secretary of State for the Colonies. Colonel Stanley said that the foundations of political responsibility in the Colonies must be based on the twin pillars of educational advance and economic development. The Colonial universities would have an ...
The Secretary of State for the Colonies asserted, indeed, that the Bill was as much designed for the purpose of meeting the needs of the world as for meeting the special needs of the Colonial peoples. As Sir Frank Stockdale pointed out in a discourse at the Royal Institution on January 23...
Lord Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the Colonies, dispatched two regiments-(4,000 troops), to restore order in Boston. The daily contact between British soldiers and colonists served to worsen relations.The decision by the British to dispatch troops to Boston was one of their worst ...
He was, among numerous other achievements, the first man to represent England at both football and cricket. Lyttelton was also a successful politician and served as Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1903 and 1905. Birthplace: London, England Position: Forward Allan Ivo Steel Dec. at ...
ideas in the colonies more particularly by the Press,Broadcasting and the Cinema.”1 And asthe Secretary of State for Colonies,W.G.A.Ormsby-Gore told the conference:“Whatrailways and steamships were in their far-reaching effects to the nineteenth century world,...
Report by Adviser on Animal Health to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on a visit to the West Indies, British Guiana and Bermuda.Montgomery, R E
IN July, 1904, the then Secretary of State for the Colonies appointed an Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, to which the Imperial Government, the Government of India, and numerous Colonial Governments and the Rhodes Trustees dontribute. The report of this Committee for ...
Related to Former British Empire:History of the British Empire Commonwealth of Nations FormerlyBritish Commonwealth An association comprising the United Kingdom, its dependencies, and many former British colonies that are now sovereign states, including Canada, Australia, India, and many West Indian and...
摘要: Ceylon : proposals for conferring on Ceylon fully responsible status within the British Commonwealth of Nations presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by command of His Majesty (Cmd, 7257) His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1947...