`Us and them': the changing nature of commonwealth diplomacy, 1880-1973.

From: The Journal of Commonwealth & ComparativePolitics | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Lloyd, Lorna | Copyright information

The traditional prerequisite for the despatch of diplomatic missions -- sovereign statehood -- was absent when, towards the end of the nineteenth century, governments of the Commonwealth began to send and receive representatives. As a result, the Commonwealth developed a distinctive way of conducting relations and their envoys were given a non-diplomatic title. This remained true even after the self-governing dominions began to appear on the international scene and then, in 1931, w...

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