ABSTRACT
It may be asked, as a preliminary to considering these arrangements in relation to the international organizations we are concerned with, whether the Commonwealth itself should be regarded as another international organization of which Britain is a member. Do the habits of consultation and co-operation between the Commonwealth countries amount to a formal arrangement?1 It would, I think, be generally agreed that the answer to this question is in the negative. The Commonwealth is more than the sum of the B5<1D9?>C ?6 D85 9>45@5>45>D CD1D5C ?6 G8938 9D 9C 3?=@?C54 $>5 ?6U391< G9D8=E38 experience of Commonwealth relations in recent times has described the Commonwealth as ‘a collection of states which although independent are not foreign’. And this must do.
