The penultimate volume in this documentary series covers the
first part of the 20th century processes of decolonization within
the British Empire, concluding with the independence of Ceylon, the
first of the non-European-settled colonies. It also illustrates
constitutional developments in the West Indies (particularly
Jamaica, Trinidad, and British Guiana), Mauritius and Seychelles,
Hong Kong, Fiji, the Western Pacific, Gibraltar, the Falklands, and
West, East, and Central-Southern Africa, as well as advance and
retreat in Malta and Cyprus. There is a section on Egypt and on the
mandates of Palestine, Transjordania, and Mesopotamia.
An introductory section demonstrates the changes both in
attitudes to and the dimensions of colonial rule during the period
from the deep freeze of trusteeship to partnership. The concluding
date saw, in addition to Ceylon's full membership in the
Commonwealth, the speedy replacement of an abortive union of Malaya
by a federation, a failed initiative in Cyprus, and what proved to
be abortive reform in Hong Kong and Fiji, treaty revision in Egypt,
a policy change in the Sudan, the surrender of the Palestine
mandate, and the establishment of Israel. By 1948, though doubts
remained about a closer association of the colonies, protectorates,
and mandates in West, East, and Central Africa, there was optimism
about a possible federation of the Caribbean.
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