Yet 70% of New Zealanders support the monarchy a higher figure than the UK.
The N Zealand PM in 1982 even regarded himself as British and wanted to help in the Falklands war.
Wrong on all.
Australia and New Zealand where angry about what was happening they didnt even want the extra powers pushed upon them.
In Britain and the rest of the Whites Dominions the will for Empire was as strong as ever even in the 1950's.
"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell...
Is this a serious post?
Do you think the Irish and Scottish would care what the Empire does to Blacks and Asians let alone what Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy or Colonial France would think.
I think Britain would become an Axis power at that point and America would begin to fight for it's existence.
Here are some very quick answers above to the ridiculous.
It was very popular among the mass of the population, the Lords, the press and the Military.
Of course the usual Liberal establishment figures and Socialist Intellectuals condemned such things.
I asked a what if.
If I was PM I would have dumped the entire non-White Empire when the time was right.
But if in a WI we ask how it could have been kept then these menthods have proved the best way of doing it.
It would have been quite easy to form an Imperial Federation in the 1940's once Baldwin was gone.
It would have also been much easier to hang on to the non-white colonies had we stayed out the war.
Chamberlain's father suggested the Imperial Federation in the first place so he may have pushed it...