Imperial Commonwealth

"Imperial Federation" was in the mind of the British politics for all the time, for its aim to keep the Empire together and forever. However, the British Government was still in doubt to established a world-wide federation across the globe were to hard to govern.

As its came, the British Empire eventually collapse after World War II and the thing that came after the Britsh Empire is the Commonwealth of Nations, which is still a loosely organization for the former British Imperial territories.

- What if the idea of the Imperial Federation and the Commonwealth of Nations are to be combined. what results it could be?

Here are the answer..

Point of Divergence
Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has proposed the Imperial Parliament and create the custom union at the 1897 Colonial Conference before Queen Victoria and other secretaries of the self-governing colonies of the British Empire. The conference anominously agreed on this proposal and eventually set the plans up for the the new Imperial Federation.

Chamberlain made a promise to all the colonies to give them rights for self-governing. The Irish seems not fond on this proposal and tried to declare their independence from the United Kingdom and the British Empire to create its own "self-governing" state.

It was set to finish by the year of 1937, when the colonies has already made an agreement on Balfour Declaration and Statute of Westminster. King George Vi called on every politicians across the Empire to agree on this Treaty, where there all accepted. The Treaty of Manchester was signed by the dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland, along with the colonial secretaries from India, the colonies in Africa, as so as the Carribeans and South East Asia. Imperial Federation was officially formed on the day of 28th April, 1938.

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