Dominion
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Nov 3, 2026
Dave RobbinsHOST
And he makes it very clear.
Dave RobbinsHOST
He says, the supreme policy formulated in this chapter would, I believe, dictate an immediate proposal by the United States to Great Britain and the British Dominions, common citizenship and full political union.
Dave RobbinsHOST
So he says this, he says political experience moreover would seem to indicate that there would be more support for or less opposition to a proposal for outright union than for a mere alliance.
Dave RobbinsHOST
Now I'm talking about Great Britain and the United States.
Fen Osler HampsonGUEST
And I'm not talking about the 1917 one, Larry.
Fen Osler HampsonGUEST
I'm talking about the 1926 one, which came out of the 1926 Imperial Conference, which declared Britain and the Dominions to be autonomous communities, equal in status, in no way subordinate to one another.
Fen Osler HampsonGUEST
And that was really the path to full independence that was... essentially consummated in the statute of Westminster, which did give legal form to that was a real milestone in our path to independence, particularly when it came to our foreign policy and that was signed in 1931. um you know there there are other examples i mean woodrow wilson's uh uh 14 points um that set in motion a set of principles that became the basis of the league of nations the universal declaration of human rights of 1948 the helsinki final act of 1975 that was It had no legal status, but it was profoundly important in terms of changing Eastern European societies from the inside, particularly through what was a basket for provisions on human rights.
Fen Osler HampsonGUEST
which essentially gave dissidents across the Soviet bloc a standard to hold their governments to account.
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Lloyd George as Prime Minister, F.E. Smith, Old Galloper Smith from his UVF supporting days, Nian Noble de Lord Birkenhead, who as Lord Chancellor was head of the English judiciary.
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Winston Churchill was there too, in his capacity of Secretary for the Colonies, having a responsibility for the Dominions, his very presence itself making clear that all that was on offer to the Irish was to be something approaching Dominion status.
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and he, Churchill, would have responsibility for the implementation of the treaty and conducting the relations with the new Irish state.
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Also on the team was Austin Chamberlain, Lord Privy Seal and leader of the Conservatives in the House of Commons.
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For the British side, only Austin Chamberlain, the leader of the Conservatives in the Commons, was always present on the British team.
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Lloyd George's government was hostage to the Conservative Party and his coalition, imperialists to a man who would not even entertain the idea of an Irish Republic outside the Empire.
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So the most Lloyd George could offer was Dominion status like Canada, Australia and New Zealand where the King was the head of state and oaths were taken to him.
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So Dominion status was all that was on the table and argue as the Irish might, that was all that was an offer.
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It was the purpose of Churchill's coming that was causing the fury as much as Churchill himself.
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Even the England Churchill has left for the day is rent down the middle in this argument and a good half of the Dominions and everywhere the writ of British rule runs and right up into the high corridors of power agree it seems with these Ulster Protestant demonstrators.
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Winston Churchill right up there on the list of Lundy's alongside Lundy himself Winston Churchill, as great an enemy to the Protestant faith, is James II.
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Winston Churchill held out openly in the House of Commons to be the greatest traitor to the British Empire.
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And so, John Redmond, Wee Joe Devlin and Winston Churchill would be the keynote speakers at the Coming Home Rule rally.
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But where to hold it? What was causing the particular outrage of the Ulster Unionist Protestants against Churchill was the chosen venue for this rally, Belfast Ulster Hall, because the Ulster Hall was the cradle of their movement that opposed any notion of a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland.
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And in this choice of venue, Ulster Protestant Unionists saw a very sleeking move, for to hold a rally without opposition in this venue was clearly intended to signal to the rest of the country and the Dominions that opposition to an All-Ireland Parliament had died off.
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Joe Devlin, the West Belfast MP, may have persuaded himself that Ulster was now behind his cause, but he wasn't the man who had convinced Churchill when he came he would be assured of a warm reception.
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Carson, the founding father of a state.
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Carson, as the Pathé newsreels told the people, huddled subduedly in their cinemas across Britain, the Dominions and the Empire.
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Carson, one of the few men of which it could be said he was completely victorious.
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The English know little of Carson because the Rays' profile is to highlight what are seen, until latterly, as an insignificant people in the way of history, dismissed out of existence and after breaths.
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He even reports two newspapers from Tsarist Russia a few days later, asking Carson to explain the Oster situation for the benefit of its aristocratic and middle-class readership in the Russian Empire.
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The photographs of the Auster leaders holding out the family were reprinted throughout the Dominions, the United States and in the Illustrated London Papers.
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Captain Spender's wife, who visited Craigavan on their siege, coated by Stuart, described it thus.
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There was a tent by each gate, with a number of men on guard, in plain clothes except for puttees, bandoliers and greatcoats.
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The UVF therefore required a full time professional staff if it wanted to be taken seriously in order to be an efficient capable force with a general staff headquarters to be based in the old town hall in Belfast.
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Thus, with the assistance of their allies and supporters in the British League for the support of Ulster, half-pay and reserve officers were sounded out as regards their loyalties and recruitment from England, all paid for from the war chest of £1 million in donations, with more donations sent almost daily, and announced with great fanfare from the Dominions and from the members of the British League.
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Chief among these British officers in sympathy and ready to pledge themselves to the Ulster cause, Was Colonel G.H.H. Couchman.
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Once commander of the Somerset Light Infantry.
WaweruHOST
That's why I committed to Jan Smuts.
WaweruHOST
Jan Smuts is, I don't know if you know a lot about South Africa, but it was a British colony, British Dominion, and a lot of its early, and even into the apartheid era, a lot of its politics are dominated by a conflict between English settlers or Anglophone settlers and Afrikaner settlers settlers who speak Afrikaans at the center of Dutch they're also called Boris and Jan Smuts I think he was Afrikaans but he was like he wasn't he wasn't an Afrikaner nationalist and so he was personally very racist um he lived in south africa you can sort of tell that one in a political he was a premier he was the prime minister of africa um but he opposed apartheid apartheid um uh and it's only after he was kicked out let me try to get his name right but i'm pretty sure this is the one that he um that they could do it.
WaweruHOST
So you have this thing where, like, you know, he's racist.
WaweruHOST
He's really racist.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Hughes immediately raced to New York City to board a liner bound for England, which managed to beat the convoy across the Atlantic, so that Hughes was in Plymouth to greet them when they arrived on October 14th.
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To Canada belongs the immortal distinction of sending the first contingent of Dominion troops to war.
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Canada has always been foremost in great Imperial movements and in advance of the Empire's honor.
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May the Maple Leaf distinguish itself in many battles.
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Robert BordenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Robert Borden.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
On February 4th, 1915, King George inspected the troops, a sure sign that a departure was imminent.
George VSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
At the beginning of November, I had the pleasure of welcoming to the mother country this fine contingent from the Dominion of Canada.
George VSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And now, after three months' training, I bid you Godspeed on your way to assist my army in the field.
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The combination of unprecedented densities of artillery and machine guns, the flexible infantry sections, was the Canadian trademark under Currie's command.
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Whenever Haig planned a breakthrough or came upon a particular obdurate German position, British units were pushed aside and Dominion troops were put in charge.
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Were the men who made up the British army therefore inferior, man for man? Were they less brave, less intelligent, less enduring than Dominion soldiers? Dennis Winter.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
What made the difference was preparation, Winter concludes, and Currie, who had devised and supervised the preparation of the Canadians, would agree.
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If the lessons of war have been thoroughly mastered, if the artillery preparation and support is good, if our intelligence is properly appreciated, there is no position that cannot be wrested from the enemy by disciplined, well-trained and well-led troops attacking on a sound plan.
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