Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...States Government are available. I hope that we are entitled to take the Attorney General's comments as a recognition of the fact that the power to take the lid off Massachusetts' state government, and to prove or disprove these freely repeated charges of corruption in this Commonwealth, lies in their hands...
...form of world government seems an unlikely and perhaps even an undesirable possibility. The present answer may lie in loose regional groupings, which have a skeletal form in the unstable Arab League, the British Commonwealth, the French community of African nations...
...Delhi, Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman sat through a grueling round of conferences with Indian officials. Their mission was twofold: to organize military aid to beleaguered India, and to seek an end to India's long festering dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. The controversy dates back to independence in 1947, when the Hindu ruler of Kashmir opted to join India instead of Moslem Pakistan, despite the fact that 77% of the province is Moslem. Bloody violence erupted; the United Nations proposed a plebiscite as a means of settling...
...sale of cricket bats bearing his signature. This anachronistic citadel of privilege seemed near collapse last week. An advisory committee recommended a change in the rules that doubtless will be approved by the Marylebone Cricket Club, a private club charged with setting the rules for England and the Commonwealth. Then there will no longer be either Gentlemen or Players, just Cricketers...
Born. To Edwina Sandys Dixon, 23, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, and Piers Dixon, 33, banker son of Sir Pierson Dixon, British Ambassador to France: their first child, a boy; in London...