1948 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

April 2022 3rd Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference GVI Attlee and Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth London 1948 13 October.jpg 11–22 October 1948 London 9 Heads of Government Clement Attlee(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) 1946 1949 Independence of India, Pakistan & Ceylon; economic, military and diplomatic co-operation The 1948 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the third Meeting of the Heads of Government of the British Commonwealth. It was held in the United Kingdom in October 1948, and hosted by British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee. It was the first such meeting to be attended by the prime ministers of recently independent Asian states Ceylon, India and Pakistan. The growth in membership ended the previous 'intimacy' of the meeting.William Roger Louis Judith Brown Alaine M. Low Nicholas P. Canny The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century 696 The issue of whether countries, specifically India, could remain Commonwealth members if they became republics was raised but was not resolved until the next conference in 1949. Ireland was initially invited to attend the meeting. After Ireland announced the pending repeal of its last connection to the British king, this invitation was revoked.Elizabeth Keane An Irish Statesman and Revolutionary: The Nationalist and Internationalist Politics of Sean MacBride 53 At the time, the British Commonwealth still regarded Ireland as one of its members. Ireland had not participated in any equivalent conferences since 1932.https://books.google.com/books?id=uyRa1I3DB-oC&pg=PA157 Nationalism and Independence: Selected Irish Papers Nicholas Mansergh Diana Mansergh 1997 Cork University Press 157 9781859181058 It had announced plans to adopt legislation severing all ties with the British crown, but had not yet brought it into force.1949 si 27 The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 (Commencement) Order 1949 4 February 1949 8 August 2020 Irish Minister for External Affairs Seán MacBride and Minister for Finance Patrick McGilligan attended one day of the conference as observers.keane The Final Communique issued by the leaders at the conclusion of the meeting saw a change in nomenclature. The terms 'Dominion' and 'Dominion Government' were superseded by 'Commonwealth country' and 'Commonwealth Government'. 'British' was omitted in front of 'Commonwealth of Nations' for the first time in the Communique.By Commonwealth Secretariat, The Commonwealth at the Summit: Communiqués of Commonwealth Heads of Government, Text of the Final Communique of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Meeting 1948oxhist Participants Nation Name Portfolio United Kingdom United Kingdom Clement Attlee Prime Minister (chairman) Australia Australia Herbert Evatt Deputy Prime Minister Canada 1921 William Lyon Mackenzie King Prime Minister Ceylon 1948 Ceylon Don Stephen Senanayake Prime Minister India India Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister New Zealand New Zealand Peter Fraser Prime Minister Pakistan Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan Prime Minister South Africa 1928 South Africa Eric Louw Minister of Mines and Economic Affairs Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia Sir Godfrey Huggins Prime MinisterHuggins was also Minister for Native Affairs References 1948 Category:Diplomatic conferences in the United Kingdom Category:1940s diplomatic conferences Category:1948 in international relations Category:1948 in London Category:United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations Category:1948 conferences Category:October 1948 in the United Kingdom Category:Clement Attlee Category:Third premiership of William Lyon Mackenzie King Category:Jawaharlal Nehru Category:Liaquat Ali Khan