Balfour Declaration of 1926

Not to be confused with the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, issued by the

King George V (front, centre) with his prime ministers at the 1926
Imperial Conference.
Standing (left to right): Monroe (Newfoundland), Coates (New
Zealand), Bruce (Australia), Hertzog (Union of South Africa),
Cosgrave (Irish Free State).
Seated: Baldwin (United Kingdom), King George V, William
Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada).

1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in

London, was named for Lord President of the Coun- Arthur Balfour, Earl of Balfour
cil (and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
Arthur Balfour. It declared the United Kingdom and the Crown as de facto head of state in each dominion, should
Dominions to be no longer also serve automatically as the representative of
the British government in diplomatic relations between
... autonomous Communities within the the countries. In following years, High Commissioners
British Empire, equal in status, in no way sub- were gradually appointed, whose duties were soon recog-
ordinate one to another in any aspect of their nised to be virtually identical to those of an ambassador.
domestic or external aairs, though united The rst such British High Commissioner was appointed
by a common allegiance to the Crown, and to Ottawa in 1928.
freely associated as members of the British The conclusions of the imperial premiers conference of
Commonwealth of Nations. ... 1926 were restated by the 1930 conference and incorpo-
rated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931, by
The Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Bal- which the British parliament renounced any legislative au-
four, drew up the document preparatory to its unani- thority over dominion aairs, except as specically pro-
mous approval by the imperial premiers on 15 Novem- vided in law.
ber 1926.[1] It was rst proposed by South African Prime
Minister J. B. M. Hertzog and Canadas Prime Minister
at that time, William Lyon Mackenzie King. 1 Footnotes
The Declaration accepted the growing political and diplo-
matic independence of the Dominions, in the years after [1] Marshall, Sir Peter (September 2001). The Bal-
World War I. It also recommended that the governors- four Formula and the Evolution of the Common-
general, the representatives of the King who acted for the wealth. The Round Table. 90 (361): 54153.

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doi:10.1080/00358530120082823.

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Transcript of the Declaration
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