Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canada, Australia, Argentina

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I asked:
> >did the dominions -- and the colonies -- have any choice in this matter?

Rob said:
> Yep, we did.  The one thing about which I agree with Brad is that it was no
> bad thing we went the way we did.

yeah, I think it was good to fight Hitler, too. Too bad so many --
including the US gov't -- gave up on the fight against fascism so quickly
when the war ended and started to embrace fascists as allies ...

> But we've actually had the sovereignty since 1901 to decide for ourselves
> whether we'd enter wars, shoot our own chaps, allow nuclear tests on
> Australian soil, and so on.

but isn't there a lot of evidence that the Governor General of Australia (a
British appointee at the time?) cooperated with the US to oust an
inconvenient PM? (was that Gough Whitlam who was ousted?) If so, official
sovereignty works different in practice.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine