Round Table movement

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The Round Table movement was an early 20th-century British imperialist and policy discussion group that sought to promote closer union and coordinated governance across the British Empire and its dominions.

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Round Table movement canonical 2

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instanceOf British imperialist organization
policy discussion group
political movement
activeInCentury 20th century
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
dissolved mid-20th century
fieldOfWork constitutional reform
imperial policy
international relations
foundedBy Alfred Milner
Lionel Curtis
associates of Milner's Kindergarten
goal coordinate governance across the British Empire
develop common imperial foreign and defense policy
promote closer union of the British Empire and its dominions
strengthen imperial unity
hasLocation Australia
Canada
India
London, England
surface form: London

New Zealand
South Africa
hasPart The Round Table journal
hasParticipant Alfred Milner
Edward Grigg
Geoffrey Dawson
Jan Smuts
Lionel Curtis
Philip Kerr
Robert Brand
William Marris
members of Milner's Kindergarten
ideology Anglo-Saxonism
British imperialism
imperial federationism
inception 1909
influenced British Commonwealth policy
League of Nations thinking among British elites
creation of the Commonwealth of Nations
imperial conferences
inspiredBy Cecil Rhodes
movementPeriod Edwardian era
interwar period
notableWork The Round Table: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire
politicalAlignment conservative-liberal imperialist
pro-Empire
publication The Round Table
usedLanguage English

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Lord Milner memberOf Round Table movement
Lord Lothian memberOf Round Table movement
subject surface form: Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian