Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sovereign nation, Rhodesia might lose some $5,500,000 a year that Britain contributes toward balancing its budget. As a maverick state outside the Commonwealth, it would have to find new markets for more than half of its yearly exports, and would forfeit highly preferential Commonwealth tariff rates...
...grant independence rests entirely with the British government and Parliament and they have a solemn duty to be satisfied that before granting independence, it would be acceptable to the people of the country as a whole." If Rhodesia proclaimed independence, Wilson pointed out, it would be excluded from the Commonwealth, and its people would be stripped of British citizenship...
Guns at Bafasi. In an unnamed African nation, newly promoted to Commonwealth status, Colonel lack Hawkins and Colonist Cecil Parker are discussing the military coup headed by a rebel leader, Jobila. Not a bad sort, really, Jobila. Spent five years in jail...
...election of the trustworthy candidate, former Governor Volpe, does not necessarily promise a real revolution in the Commonwealth's political morals. The first 22 months of his first term, until he lost the election, were marked by unusual if colorless honesty, but in the mad scramble afterwards by his supporters and staff to get jobs before the Democrats took over, he did little to distinguish himself. The Democratic Governor's Council, uncertain of its relations with the new Governor, Chub Peabody, and anxious to get his friends into office, was more than cooperative in making deals with Volpe...
Volpe's unexpected triumph proves that, at the top of the ticket anyway, the Commonwealth's electorate can distinguish Barry Goldwater from native Republicans--a million voters split their tickets for Johnson and Volpe. Brooke's victory also demonstrates that, at least in theory, the voters are against sin and corruption (though they re-elected the two indicted Councilors and the felon running for the General Court...