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==== Imperial War Cabinet ====
An [[Imperial War Cabinet]], including representatives from Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India, met 14 times from 20 March 1917 to 2 May 1917 (a crisis period of the war) and twice in 1918.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/cabinet-gov/cab23-first-world-war-conclusions.htm#Imperial%20War%20Cabinet%20Minutes |title=Imperial War Cabinet Minutes |access-date=2 August 2020 |archive-date=17 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017052428/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/cabinet-gov/cab23-first-world-war-conclusions.htm#Imperial%20War%20Cabinet%20Minutes |url-status=live }}</ref> The idea was not entirely without precedent as there had been [[Imperial Conference]]s in [[First Colonial Conference|1887]], [[1894 Colonial Conference|1894]], [[1897 Colonial Conference|1897]], [[1902 Colonial Conference|1902]], [[1907 Imperial Conference|1907]] and [[1911 Imperial Conference|1911]], whilst the Australian Prime Minister [[Billy Hughes]] had been invited to attend the Cabinet and War Committee on his visit to the UK in the spring of 1916. The South African [[Jan Smuts]] was appointed to the British War Cabinet in the early summer of 1917.<ref name=GriggCrisisAtSea/>{{rp|61–64}}