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The year 1971 provided the penultimate watershed in Britain’s decolonization. In January came the Singapore conference the first new-style summit meeting, now titled ‘Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting’ (CHOGM), and held outside London. Not only was the first CHOGM notable for its title, venue and chairmanship by the Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, but it broke new ground in three other respects.
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McIntyre, W.D. (1998). Closing the Files on the Pacific, Caribbean and Southern Africa. In: British Decolonization, 1946–1997. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26922-8_7
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