Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premierial Pre-Occupations. Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Australia, conscious that his Dominion needs the protection of the British fleet against Japan, remarked significantly: "Our people are now spending 18 shillings [$4.38] a head per year on defenses, practically twice as much as all the other dominions put together, and only five shillings less per head per year than the English taxpayer. . . . We would like to see each part of the Empire similarly bearing the common load...
...There is no technical reason why the journey to Canada should not be reduced to two and a ,half days, the journey to India to five days, to Cape Town six days, to Australia eleven days and to New Zealand thirteen days...
Imperialist Bruce. Such lack of enthusiasm for the Empire, such emphasis upon the Commonwealth, naturally displeased Premier Bruce. His Australia, with but 5,000,000 population, looks with affright at teeming Japan and for protection to a well-knit Empire. Therefore Premier Bruce declared with emphasis to the press...
...Cabinet of Empire." Premier King of Canada set sail last week for England. Premiers Hertzog of South Africa and Bruce of Australia were already in London. During the week Indian maharajas arrived by almost every packet. This august conflux had for its focus the modest official residence of Premier Baldwin at No. 10 Downing Street. Within a few days Stanley Baldwin would welcome there for a round table conference what British newsorgans dub the "Cabinet of Empire." Technically this gathering of the Commonwealth's farthest flung administrators is known as the Imperial Conference, has not met since...
Alan Cobham, flyer: "When I returned to England from my 28,000-mile round trip flight to Australia I remarked, 'Aviation will make Australia [TIME, Oct. 11]. . . .In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year.' Now comes the Rev. Mr. C. Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society...