Subject: Re: Offshoot query<br/>
Date: Mar 28, 2002 @ 22:50<br/>
Author: lnadybal (&quot;lnadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1362469746">Hi.<br/>
<br/>
A colony can have only a military government.  In the UK, they assign <br/>
the title of Generalgoveneur / Vizekoenig (UK term in German) / <br/>
Military Governor to the heads of such colonies.  The Germans operated <br/>
the conquered area of Poland as Generalgouvernement (and I think also <br/>
Belgium, too, for a period during WWI.  The implication was that the <br/>
territory governed by the military was not annexed to or otherwise <br/>
incorporated or assimilated into the mother country.  There seems to <br/>
be a parallel to that with respect to the SBA.<br/>
<br/>
Regards<br/>
Len<br/>
    <br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;shocktm&quot; &lt;andrew@A...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;lnadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@c...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; &gt; Are the two pieces of Brunei really separated by Malaysia, or are<br/>
&gt; &gt; they perhaps connected by territorial seas?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I am pretty sure that they are connected by territorial sea but as <br/>
&gt; such it may be better to call the fragment a pene-frangment as the <br/>
&gt; only road access is through Malaysia. Guess we have to add that to <br/>
&gt; the dictinary of border words. :)<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; Re: the SBAs - They were carved out of a colony, not out of the <br/>
&gt; &gt; motherland - you can&#39;t say you are in a outlipart of Britain just <br/>
&gt; &gt; because they are named &quot;British Sovereign Base Areas&quot;, can you?  I <br/>
&gt; &gt; think that they are &quot;peculiarities of the crown&quot;, as Jersey and <br/>
&gt; &gt; Guernsey are - under &quot;British&quot; sovereignty, but not part of the <br/>
&gt; &gt; motherland.  There would have to have been an act of annexation to <br/>
&gt; &gt; incorporate them into the territory of either Britain or the <br/>
United <br/>
&gt; &gt; Kingdom.  Without that, aren&#39;t these bases just the rump portions<br/>
&gt; &gt; of a colony that continues to exist, and (outside of the exclaves<br/>
&gt; &gt; of Cyprus inside the bases) consists now of no civil areas, only<br/>
&gt; &gt; military areas?  In other words, the borders of the Cyprus colony<br/>
&gt; &gt; shrunk when they were moved from being synonymous with the whole<br/>
&gt; &gt; island to only the portion consisting of the bases - the<br/>
&gt; &gt; sovereignty over the rest having been given away to the Cypriot<br/>
&gt; &gt; people. <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I have tried to detemine what the SBAs are. They are not <br/>
dependencies <br/>
&gt; like Bermuda (Territory of the UK) or Jersey (Territory of the <br/>
&gt; Crown), so I have concluded that they are part of the UK proper. <br/>
This <br/>
&gt; may be wrong. I also considered that the SBAs have no government <br/>
&gt; other than the Ministry of Defense.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; There is no Territory of Cyprus anymore so your description of the <br/>
&gt; SBAs is not really valid IMO.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; - Andrew </span></blockquote></div>