Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bubbles, hung a question: Just what is this new Commonwealth? Not the old one, that was sure. Most prominent and respected man at the London conference last week was Jawaharlal Nehru, who had spent 14 years of his life in British jails; for this he held no grudge against Britain, but for his lifelong struggle he certainly had no repentance. Nehru, on arriving in London, changed his long black sherwani for a Savile Row suit. He looked well in a Homburg...
...that India, Pakistan and Ceylon were full dominions, now that Britain's primacy in sea power and trade had departed, now that South Africa was heading down an undemocratic, anti-British road (see below), what was left of the easy trust and informal cooperation of the old Commonwealth...
...with the questions raised by the Economist, the delegates did make some progress on other fronts. Most important was the discussion of the relation (some Britons call it a conflict) between the Commonwealth and a Western European Union. Dominion representatives asked Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps if Britain's commitments to supply capital goods to Europe under the Marshall Plan would not interfere with the shipment of similar goods to their countries. Cripps said no. The visitors seemed impressed when he pointed out that Britain's capital goods exports to Commonwealth nations were up 60% over...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist government, founded on the principle of apartheid (racial segregation), hates Great Britain and despises the British liberal tradition. It is a government run by and for the tough Afrikaans-speaking burgers who make up 60% of the Union's white population. A much-used Nationalist slogan: "One Country, One Flag, One Language" (Afrikaans...
...Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 65, ailing for six weeks with an ulcer, was ordered to cut down his smoking to two pipes a day. Forthwith he sent out for the biggest pipe that could be bought in London...