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A 3 page paper which examines the reasons for the demise of the West Indian Federation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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some power, and independence, regarding the powers of the rest of the world. As the name suggests, it was a federation, not dissimilar to the European Union, wherein West Indian
nations would gather together as a whole. Many countries were not necessarily content with the foundations of the federation and thus did not join, or were not allowed to join.
This federation lasted only a few years. The following paper examines some of the conditions of the West Indian Federation and argues that this federation clearly did not meet the
needs of enough nations and thus failed. West Indian Federation In understanding what the West Indian Federation was, where it went wrong, and why it is still studied
for a possibly successful federation we look at the history of the federation. One author notes that, "From as far back as the early 1940s, Dr. Jagan was very interested
in issues of Caribbean integration. He firmly believed in Caribbean unity" (Sanders, 2005). He was one of many who attended the Montego Bay Conference in 1943 that asked for a
West Indian Federation (Sanders, 2005). That particular conference, which was also attended by the British Government, agreed that the Federation whould possess dominion status, similar to Australia and Canada (Sanders,
2005). They would possess "internal self-government for each unit territory" (Sanders, 2005). These ideas, however, did not come to fruition into the West Indian Federation until 1958. There were
several nations that were involved, but there were also nations which were not allowed for one reason or another. One such nation was Jamaica. Another nation that had problems with
the Federation was Guiana. "The Peoples National Congress had felt that in proper circumstances British Guiana should join the West Indies Federation, provided the terms were satisfactory to Guiana and
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