"although it was asserted that the case of India depended upon its own special circumstances, it has inevitably been regarded as having established a precedent. Common allegiance could not, after the Prime Ministers' Declaration of April, 1949, be posited as a fundamental rule of the Commonwealth association, though it is conceived that recognition of the Queen as "Head of the Commonwealth" is, at least for the present, such a rule. The constitutional status of the Members of the Commonwealth other than India was not intended to be changed by the 1949 Declaration; and the words of 1926 and 1931, reciting their "common allegiance to the Crown," were reaffirmed." S. A. de Smith, The Royal Styles and Titles, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Aprilo 1953, p. 265.
