The Commonwealth of Nations was created in 1949 but it would only be a free association of independent states rather than the powerful imperial federation imagined by Rhodes, Milner and Curtis.
1949年大英國協成立，但它只是一個獨立國家的自由聯盟，而不是塞西爾·羅德斯和萊昂內爾·柯蒂斯想像中的強大帝國聯邦。