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Up to July, 1925, the affairs of all the British Empire, apart from the United Kingdom and India, were dealt with by the Colonial Office. In that month a new secretaryship of state, for Dominion Affairs, took over from the Colonial Office business connected with the self-governing Dominions, the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, and the South African High Commission territories (Basntoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland), and business relating to the Imperial Conference.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1955). The British Commonwealth. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270848_4
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