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primary motive and that the stated purpose of working for imperial federation was, to

some extent at least, a mask. The Round Table, in 1940, in its obituary of Abe Bailey

(September 1940, XXX, 743-746) attributes its foundation to this cause as follows:

"German ambitions to destroy and supplant the British Commonwealth were manifest to

those who had eyes to see.... [These asked] 'Can not all the Dominions he brought to

realize the common danger that confronts them as much as it confronts Great Britain and

think out in mutual discussion the means of uniting all the force and resolution of the

Empire in its defense?' To the solution of this question the founders of the Closer Union

Societies resolved to apply a similar procedure. Round Table Groups were established in

all the British Dominions to study the problem." A similar cause for the founding

appeared in The Round Table as recently as the issue of September 1948.

2. The original leader of the Round Table Groups in New Zealand was apparently

James Allen (Sir James after 1917), who had been educated in England, at Clifton School

and Cambridge University, and was an M. P. in New Zealand from 1887 to 1920. He was

Minister of Defense (1912-1920), Minister of Finance and Education (1912-1915), and

Minister of Finance (1919-1920), before he became in 1920, New Zealand's High

Commissioner in London. He was a member of the Royal Institute of International

Affairs.

In the Round Table Group for New Zealand, Allen was soon supplemented and

eventually succeeded by William Downie-Stewart as the most important member.

Stewart was at the time Mayor of Dunedin (1913) but soon began a twenty-one-year

period as an M.P. (1914-1935). He was also Minister of Customs (1921-1928); Minister

of Internal Affairs (1921-1924); Minister of Industries and Commerce (1923-1926);

Attorney General (1926); Minister of Finance (1926-1928, 1931-1933); Acting Prime

Minister (1926); New Zealand delegate to the Ottawa Conference (1932); Vice-

Chancellor of Otago University; prominent businessman, and president of the New

Zealand Institute of International Affairs (1935- ). According to Dove's letters, he

attended a Milner Group discussion meeting at Lord Lothian's country house in October

1932.

3. The chief leaders in Australia were Thomas Bavin (Sir Thomas after 1933) and

Frederic W. Eggleston (Sir Frederic since 1941). The former, who died in 1941 (see

obituary in The Round Table for December 1941), was a barrister in New South Wales

from 1897, Professor of Law and Modern History at the University of Tasmania (1900-

1901); private secretary to the first Prime Minister of Australia, Sir Edmund Barton, in

1901-1904; Secretary and Chief Law Officer of Australia in 1907; It. commander in

naval intelligence in 1916-1918; an Australian M.P. in 1919-1935; held many cabinet

posts in New South Wales from 1922 to 1930, ending as Premier (1927-1930). He

finished his career as a judge of the Supreme Court in 1935-1941. He was one of the

original members of the Round Table Group in Australia, a regular contributor to The

Round Table, and an important member of the Australian Institute of International

Affairs.

Eggleston was a barrister from 1897; a member, correspondent, and chief agent in

Australia for The Round Table from 1911; a member of the Legislative Assembly of

Australia, (1920-1927); Minister for Railways, (1924-1926); chairman of the

Commonwealth Grants Commission, (1934-1941); Minister of China (1941-1944) and to

the United States (1944-1946). He was one of the founders and chief officers of the

Australian Institute of International Affairs and its representative on the council of the

Institute of Pacific Relations.

4. Glazebrook, although virtually unknown, was a very important figure in Canadian

life, especially in financial and imperialist circles, up to his death in 1940. For many

years he had a practical monopoly in foreign exchange transactions in Toronto, through

his firm, Glazebrook and Cronyn (founded 1900). Like most members of the Milner

Group, he was interested in adult education, workers' education, and university

management. He promoted all of these in Toronto, lecturing himself to the Workers'

Educational Association, and at the University of Toronto where he was assistant

Professor of Banking and Finance (1926-1937). He was the chief adviser of leading

bankers of Canada, and of London and New York bankers on Canadian matters. The

Round Table says of him: "Through his friendship with Lord Milner and others he had at

one time a wide acquaintance among the prominent figures in British public life, and it is

well-known to his intimates that on numerous occasions British ministers, anxious to

secure reliable information about certain Canadian affairs through unofficial channels,

had recourse of Glazebrook.... By precept and example he exercised an immense

influence for good upon the characters and outlook of a number of young Canadians who