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William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Question of the Institutional Status of Governors-General at the Imperial Conference, 1926

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Valkoun J.

West Bohemian Historical Review

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2020

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vol. 10

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issue 2

189-199

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The paper is focused on an analysis of British-Canadian constitutional and institutional relations in connexion with the nation-building process, Mackenzie King’s nationalist tendencies and Canadian efforts to be partly recognised as an independent state during the Imperial Conference of 1926, which marked a new phase in relations among the Dominions and the mother country. The circumstances strengthened Canada’s Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, in his conviction that they had to break free from their obligations arising from common policies, and instead ensure that Ottawa enforce an independent, or at least autonomous, form of foreign policy. Subsequent conflicts of opinion between Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and Canadian Governor-General Viscount Byng affected the agenda of inter-Imperial relations regarding ensuring a precise definition of the institutional status of Governors-General. Mackenzie King thought that Governors-General should from then on represent the Crown, but not the London government. This change would give Dominion governments direct access to the King. Previously, Governors-General in the Dominions had been viewed more as “communication intermediaries” between Britain and local representatives rather than direct representatives of the King.

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Velká Británie a Kanada od Westminsterského statutu k Ogdensburgské smlouvě

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Šubrt M.

Dvacáté století - The Twentieth Century

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2017

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vol. 9

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issue 2

21-41

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This article analyses the development of political relations between Great Britain and Canada in the era between the Statute of Westminster in both countries (1931) and the signing of the defensive agreement in Ogdensburg between Canada and the United States of America (August 1940). The article discusses the attitude of both countries to the key events and developments of the period: the Great Depression, the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa (1932), the Imperial Conference in London (1937) and the threat of another world war. When the Second World War started in September 1939, Canada joined the war on the side of its mother country. The rapid changes, however, had made Canada move closer to the United States of America in the economic and military spheres.

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Studie se zaměřuje na analýzu vývoje zahraničněpolitických vztahů mezi Velkou Británií a Kanadou od přijetí Westminsterského statutu v obou zemích roku 1931 do uzavření obranné smlouvy mezi Kanadou a Spojenými státy americkými v Ogdensburgu v srpnu roku 1940. Studie zkoumá přístup obou zemí ke klíčovým událostem zvoleného období: Velká hospodářská krize, imperiální ekonomická konference v Ottawě v roce 1932, imperiální konference v Londýně roku 1937 a hrozby váleč- ného střetu ve světě. Když v září 1939 vypukla druhá světová válka, vstoupila do ní Kanada po boku své mateřské země. Rychlé změny měly však za následek přibližování Kanady ke Spojeným státům americkým v ekonomické i vojenské oblasti.

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The King-Byng Affair and Transformation of the Role of Governor-General in Canada

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Šubrt M.

Prague Papers on the History of International Relations

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2019

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issue 2

30-44

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The study focuses on an analysis of the King-Byng affair, Canadian constitutional crisis of 1926. During the government crisis in Canada, the British Governor-General Lord Byng of Vimy denied the request of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to dissolve parliament and declare new elections. Lord Byng chose a different procedure instead, as a result of which he interfered significantly in internal Canadian politics. This incident contributed to a precise definition of the new office of Governor-General in dominions during the Imperial Conference in London in 1926. The Governor-General lost his office as representative of the British government and he became only the representative of the British monarch. The aim of this paper is to focus on what role the King-Byng affair plays in this transformation of the conception of Governor-General and in the process of establishment of the independence of Canada from its mother country

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William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Question of the Institutional Status of Governors-General at the Imperial Conference, 1926

Velká Británie a Kanada od Westminsterského statutu k Ogdensburgské smlouvě

The King-Byng Affair and Transformation of the Role of Governor-General in Canada