Bigwin and the Changing Commonwealth

began in Washington the day before it convened, resulting in an announcement on September 12 of a ten-point programme intended to cope with the sterling-dollar crisis in trade and finance, and followed by an announcement from London of the devaluation of sterling on the eve of the delegates' departure from Bigwin. The first meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Pact countries had by then begun. Such timing of the conference gave special point to its terms of reference, which were: To survey the positions of the Member Nations in the post-war world, including the relations between them, and to examine what changes may be required in their policies in the interest of world order and progress. It was not surprising that nine days of sessions proved none too long, even under the fortunate conditions of a big house-party so ideally isolated from outside distractions as was this conference at the

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