Titlebook: Elgin and Churchill at the Colonial Office, 1905-08; Ronald Hyam Book 1968 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00213-9Britain; Churchill; Colonial Office; history

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Elgin and Churchill at the Colonial Office: The Conduct of BusinessI. this chapter we shall consider some general characteristics of the way in which Elgin and Churchill conducted their routine business, and explore the relations between the ministers and their colonial service staff, and between themselves.

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Introduction The new government found itself in charge of ‘one continent, a hundred peninsulas, five hundred promontories, a thousand lakes, two thousand rivers, ten thousand islands’. At this time, moreover, 7o per cent of all the ships on the seas flew the Union Jack.’ The British empire was at its apogee. Tr

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The Liberal Ministry and the Empirenment. By 1905 a `bi-partisan’ foreign policy was virtually established. Shortly before the new Liberal government took office in December 1905, Sir Edward Grey emphasised the need for continuity of foreign policy. He would not say that they were always bound at all costs to advocate continuity, but

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South Africa: Aftermath of the Boer Warsimism was never far away from Liberal thinking about South Africa. Long before the end of the nineteenth century, there was an underlying realisation that South Africa had already receded beyond imperial control. It was for this reason that Liberals regarded Sir Alfred Milner as a dangerous high co