Word: britannia
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...from his palace at Srinagar, effected important political and social reforms, and was so far friendly to the British that he sent an army of 10,000 men to fight with the Allies during the World War, and declined $500,000 due him as payment for their services. Grateful, Britannia showered the aged potentate of nearly three score and ten with decorations. Touched and admiring, British citizens hailed him as an ardent cricketer, who, when he could no longer bowl, field or run, continued to bat and had someone...
...Apponyi fired home an address in support of his measure that was calculated to leave not a mind unpersuaded. The assembly rose to its feet and cheered. Then it suddenly sat down and realized it had made a faux pas. Throughout the rest of the week the mills of Britannia slowly ground Count Apponyi's resolution to nothingness. The hour for "putting teeth into the League...
...Britannia's brow was furrowed with frowns last week. The three prongs of her trident ? Laborism, Conservatism, Liberalism? absorbed her whole attention...
...Navy, taking courage from the warm reception his blunt remarks in favor of aggressive warfare had received the week before, continued blunt. He charged England with instigating the 1920 Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments in order that the U. S. Navy might be reduced and Britannia left free to rule the world's commerce. Sir James Arthur Salter, onetime Assistant Director of the Transportation Department at the British Admiralty, thereupon arose. Said he: "I assure you upon my honor. ... I have never in the most intimate private conversations heard a whisper of the kind of farsighted, long-directed...
Empire Day (May 24), birthday of Queen Victoria, and since 1903 a patriotic holiday, passed off with the usual parades and numerous renditions of Rule Britannia and God Save the King. The following Sunday, a great thanksgiving service was held in the stadium of the British Empire Exhibition. King George and Queen Mary attended in state; numerous symbolic processions filed past them; one was led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and some half dozen Bishops...