Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commonwealth introduced a cap found at the scene of the murder, which Sacco's employer said was similar to a cap Sacco often wore to work. Sacco said the cap was not his, and it did not appear...
Furious at this "act of betrayal," Welensky stalked angrily from Butler's office and promptly canceled a luncheon engagement with Prime Minister Macmillan, a snub without precedent in British Commonwealth annals. At a news conference, he stormed that "these decisions have been taken by Her Majesty's Government under threat from men who seek power. The people of Central Africa, black and white alike, are being betrayed to these men!" Southern Rhodesia's Field took the news in stride. Now that the federation was virtually dissolved, Field wanted a British guarantee of independence for Southern Rhodesia...
Sunburned and smiling. Queen Elizabeth arrived at the port of Darwin in Australia's remote Northern Territory, clearly enjoyed an easygoing interlude in her Commonwealth tour Down Under. At a luncheon aboard the royal yacht Britannia, Elizabeth and Philip entertained 20 guests, among them a full-blooded aboriginal from the local Rights Council, who departed happily with his souvenir menu but wanted to know just one thing: "What was that stuff that looked like water but didn't taste like it?'' That stuff, someone explained, was a martini...
With the disappearance of the British Commonwealth and the ever increasing cultural, political and economic influence of the United States, Canada has today lost her identity and independence, Conway continued. Her wartime role as "honest broker between the United States and Great Britain" has also vanished...
...Conservative Party, which formerly based its appeal on close ties with the British Commonwealth and a high protective tariff against the United States, must now redefine its position, according to Conway. So too the Liberal Party, which prided itself on its "understanding of the Canadian role in North America...