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  2. West Indies Federation - Wikipedia

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    The West Indies Federation, [2] [3] also known as the West Indies, [4] [5] the Federation of the West Indies [6] or the West Indian Federation, [7] [8] [9] was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.

  3. Report of West India Royal Commission (Moyne Report)

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    Lord Moyne even agreed, at the urging of the War Office, to "moderate the tone" and to cut the "particularly dangerous sections", regarding the state of housing, women and children, from the final report. [34] Johnson claims that the government had already decided that it was going to spend money to improve the West Indies. [26]

  4. British West Indies - Wikipedia

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    The West Indies Federation was a short-lived federation that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962. It consisted of several Caribbean colonies of the United Kingdom. The Federation's purpose was to create a political unit that would become independent from Britain as a single state, similar to the Federation of Australia or Canadian ...

  5. History of Antigua and Barbuda (1958–1962) - Wikipedia

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    Antigua joined the West Indies Federation on 3 January. On 6 January, the Governor prorogued the Legislative Council for the first time of the year. [2] On 16 January, polling divisions were established for the 1958 West Indies federal elections by the Supervisor of Elections. [3]

  6. History of Saint Lucia - Wikipedia

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    It was colonized by the British and French in the 17th century and was the subject of several possession changes until 1814, when it was ceded to the British by France for the final time. In 1958, St. Lucia joined the short-lived semi-autonomous West Indies Federation. Saint Lucia was an associated state of the United Kingdom from 1967 to 1979 ...

  7. History of the British West Indies - Wikipedia

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    Bolland, O. Nigel. "Systems of domination after slavery: the control of land and labor in the British West Indies after 1838." Comparative Studies in Society and History 23.4 (1981): 591–619. Bousquet, Ben and Colin Douglas. West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II (1991) online Archived 22 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine

  8. War and Peace: The Evils of the First and a Plan for ...

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    A fundamental misconception that war is sometimes required to prevent worse evils is addressed and a misallocation of resources is critiqued, where nations spend billions on military infrastructures that could otherwise be invested in education, science, public health, and social welfare. [1] The author then explores the causes of war, in ...

  9. Commonwealth Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean with West Indies Federation members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of British West Indies colonies from 1958–62.. Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation, which consisted of all the island nations (except the Bahamas), and the territories (excluding Bermuda ...