[169-2] According to H.C. Lodge—One Hundred Years of Peace, New York, 1913, p.108—September 3, 1863, was the crucial day.
[169-3] Ibid., pp. 118-119.
[171-1] Cf. Ency. Brit., vol. xxvii. p. 651.
[171-2] The Outlook, New York, December 21, 1912, p. 843: "The first Governors' Conference was called by President Roosevelt in 1908. It met at the White House to consider the subject of Conservation. So immediately evident was the desirability of co-operation that Governor Willson, of Kentucky, sprang to his feet at the close of one of the sessions and said, 'Gentlemen, let me detain you a moment.' He went to the platform and there unfolded a plan for a Conference of the Governors, to be called by themselves. This was held at Washington in 1909. The third meeting of the Governors occurred at Frankfort, Kentucky, Governor Willson's own capital, in 1911, . . . The Governors' Conference is apparently becoming something of a fixture in our political life."
[172-1] Ency. Brit., vol. xxv. pp. 480-481: Peace signed at Pretoria, May 31, 1902; self-government decreed, December 12, 1906; elections held in Transvaal, February 1907.
[172-2] Cf. Alfred Caldecott, English Colonization and Empire, London, 1891, p. 130: "Canada was a conquered possession, not a settlement, it is true; but the attempt to treat it as a conquest nearly ended in another catastrophe."
[172-3] W.T. Stead, The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes, London, 1902, p. 113.
[173-1] G. R. Parkin, Imperial Federation, London, 1892, p. 253.
[173-2] Ibid., p. 254.
[174-1] Round Table, London, December 1913, p. 112. As to
Chatham's plans for both Irish and American co-operation in
Pan-Angle government, see A. L. Burt, Imperial Architects,
Oxford, 1913, pp. 28-32.