Quelltext der Seite 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference

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{{Infobox summit meeting
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| other_titles =
| image        = CommonwealthPrimeMinisters1944.jpg
| alt          =
| caption      =
| country      = {{UK}}
| dates        = {{nowrap|1 May 1944}}&ndash;<br />{{nowrap|16 May 1944}}
| venues       =
| cities       = London
| participants = <!-- X (of members) -->
| heads_of_state_label = {{nowrap|Heads of Government}}
| heads_of_state = 6
| chairperson  = [[Winston Churchill]]<br>(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
| follows      = 1937 Imperial Conference
| precedes     = 1946
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| keypoints    = Supporting the Moscow Declaration<br>Coordination of war effort
}}
The "Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference of 1944” was the first meeting of the heads of government of the British Commonwealth. It took place from May 1 to 16, 1944, in the United Kingdom and was hosted by British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]].

==The Conference==
===Overview===
The conference was attended by the prime ministers of all Commonwealth dominions except Ireland and Newfoundland. Participants included Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, Canadian Prime Minister [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]], New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser, and South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts.  Also present was Prime Minister Sir Godfrey Huggins from the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, and India was represented by the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. Members of Churchill's War Cabinet and the high commissioners of the Dominions also attended.

Ireland did not participate, although it was still a member of the British Commonwealth at the time. Ireland had not participated in any comparable conference since 1932.

The heads of state and government of the British Commonwealth agreed to support the Moscow Declaration and agreed on their respective roles in the overall Allied war effort.

Before the conference, Robert McIntyre and Douglas Young, the leaders of the Scottish National Party, lobbied King, Fraser, Smuts, Huggins, and Curtin to raise the question of Scottish independence at the conference and to invite Scotland to participate in this and all future Commonwealth conferences. Curtin considered this an internal matter for the British government, King was sympathetic, and the other participants merely reaffirmed their agreement to the communiqués.

===Participants===
====Ministers====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Nation
! Name
! Portfolio
|-
| rowspan=18|
| [[Winston Churchill]]
| Prime Minister (chairman)
|-
| [[Clement Attlee]]
| Deputy Prime Minister
|-
| The Lord Beaverbrook
| Lord Privy Seal
|-
| Sir John Anderson
| Chancellor of the Exchequer
|-
| Anthony Eden
| Foreign Secretary
|-
| Herbert Morrison
| Home Secretary
|-
| The Viscount Cranborne
| Dominions Secretary
|-
| Oliver Stanley
| Colonial Secretary
|-
| Leo Amery
| India and Burma Secretary
|-
| Sir Percy Grigg
| War Secretary
|-
| A. V. Alexander
| First Lord of the Admiralty
|-
| Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt
| Air Secretary
|-
| Sir Stafford Cripps
| Minister of Aircraft Production
|-
| Brendan Bracken
| Minister of Information
|-
| Ernest Bevin
| Minister of Labour and National Service
|-
| Oliver Lyttelton
| Minister of Production
|-
| The Lord Woolton
| Minister of Reconstruction
|-
| The Lord Cherwell
| Paymaster General
|-
| rowspan=2|
| John Curtin
| Prime Minister
|-
| Stanley Bruce
| High Commissioner
|-
| rowspan=2|
| [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]
| Prime Minister
|-
| Vincent Massey
| High Commissioner
|-
| rowspan=2|{{flagicon|British Raj}} India
| Hari Singh
| The Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir
|-
| Sir Feroz Khan Noon
| Delegate
|-
| rowspan=2|
| Peter Fraser
| Prime Minister
|-
| Bill Jordan
| High Commissioner
|-
| rowspan=2|{{flagicon|South Africa|1928}} South Africa
| Jan Smuts
| Prime Minister
|-
| Deneys Reitz
| High Commissioner
|-
|
| Sir Godfrey Huggins
| Prime Minister
|-
|}

====Military====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Service
! Head
! Name
|-
| Army
| Chief of the Imperial General Staff
| Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke
|-
| Navy
| First Sea Lord
| Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham
|-
| RAF
| Chief of the Air Staff
| Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Portal
|-
|}

* AUS General Sir Thomas Blamey
* UK Lieutenant General Sir Hastings Ismay
* NZL Lieutenant General Edward Puttick

====Diplomats and officials====
* AUS Sir Frederick Shedden Secretary, Ministry of Defense
* CAN [[Norman Robertson]]
* UK Sir John Stephenson
* UK Sir Richard Hopkins Secretary of State for the Treasury

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