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the previous government. It was that UNP aberration, under pressure by the British, that dissolved democracy in NL, not a bottom-up decision to hand it over to a British-appointed commission. The reason that the UNP was able to be pressured into this was the need to take out loans to cover the crises brought about by its own mismanagement. This unelected commission was still in place by the time confederation occurred in 1949.

Canadian and American military spending in NL brought the dominion..