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After the
War, as the Colonial Minister, he was able to closely observe the
situation and political developments in the
Colonies, and seek solutions for any
unrest in the Colonies. He believed that the post-war political and
economic
developments such as demands in the Colonies for political and economic
independence should be
treated as seriously as possible, and not to underestimate
them. He also believed that trusteeship must be
transformed into a positive
principle of equal co-operation, and he had been by now deeply committed to
the
idea of the ultimate cause of the Colonies – independence. Therefore, during his
time as Colonial
Secretary, two important territories received their independence.
In February 1948 Ceylon, land regarded as
the most “mature” of the Colonial
Office’s charges, followed to the path of the Indian
sub-continent, and a few
months later mandated Palestine became independent Israel. For many years
to
come the Colonial Office’s annual report bore the broad statement of policy,
drafted by Jones,
which was guiding the Colonial territories to independence
within the Commonwealth, as a standard and
cardinal purpose of British Colonial
policy.

2. Conservative Party

Churchill. Winston L.S. Prime Minister 1940-45 and October 1951-
April,
1955.

In 1900
Churchill was elected to Parliament as a Conservative. By the time
Churchill had become thirty-two he had
switched from Conservative to Liberal.
In 1905 he was appointed Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in
Campbell-
Bannerman’s Liberal Government. At the age of thirty-six Churchill had a post in
the
Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade. Two years later, in 1910, he
became the Home Secretary; First
Lord of the Admiralty in 1911, and Minister

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