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1930 Imperial Conference

Field	Value
summit_name	1930 Imperial Conference
country	United Kingdom United Kingdom
date	1 October 1930–
14 November 1930
cities	London
participants
heads_of_state_label	Heads of State or Government
heads_of_state	8
chairperson	Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Minister)
follows	[1926](1926-imperial-conference)
precedes	1932
keypoints	Imperial preference, Statute of Westminster 1931

14 November 1930 The 1930 Imperial Conference was the sixth Imperial Conference bringing together the prime ministers of the dominions of the British Empire. It was held in London. The conference was notable for producing the Statute of Westminster, which established legislative equality for the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire with Great Britain, thereby marking the effective legislative independence of these countries. Economic relations within the British Empire was also a key topic with proposals for a system of Imperial preference - empire-wide trade barriers against foreign (i.e. non-empire) goods. These proposals were further discussed at the British Empire Economic Conference in 1932.

Background

The 1926 Imperial Conference produced the Balfour Declaration that Dominions were autonomous and not subordinate to Great Britain. The 1929 Conference on Dominion Legislation and Merchant Shipping Laws was intended to move from the Balfour Declaration's broad statement of principle to a substantive legal framework, but the Irish Free State and the Union of South Africa demanded greater practical autonomy than the other attendees would allow. The 1930 Conference would instead address the issue.

Historian George Woodcock argues it marks the beginning of the end of the British Empire.

The Conference

The conference was hosted by King-Emperor George V, with his Prime Ministers and members of their respective cabinets:

Nation	Name	Portfolio
United Kingdom United Kingdom	Ramsay MacDonald	Prime Minister (chairman)
	James Scullin	Prime Minister
	R. B. Bennett	Prime Minister
British Raj India	William Wedgwood Benn	Secretary of State
	W. T. Cosgrave	President
Newfoundland Newfoundland	Richard Squires	Prime Minister
	George Forbes	Prime Minister
South Africa South Africa	J. B. M. Hertzog	Prime Minister

References

Citations

References

Marshall, Sir Peter. (September 2001). "The Balfour Formula and the Evolution of the Commonwealth". [[The Round Table Journal.
Keith, A. Berriedale. (1930). "Notes on Imperial Constitutional Law". Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
Keith, A. Berriedale. (1931). "The Imperial Conference of 1930". Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
Woodcock, 1974.

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