Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Over against the United States now stands in friendly intercourse the Britannic Commonwealth with rapidly developing members on these American continents -Canada, the British West Indies and British Guiana...
...dispute were to arise with one of the Caribbean republics of such proportions as to demand the intervention of Britain as the head of the Commonwealth of Nations, would the United States step in and assert her sole right to settle it? This was what she did in the Venezuelan matter.* In the future, Canada might have a very great interest in the solution. Foreign policy is rapidly becoming an affair not of Britain alone, but of the Britannic Commonwealth...
...June, 1916, the British cruiser Hampshire struck a mine and the British Commonwealth suffered the loss of Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartum, "the greatest soldier-statesman of the century...
...Post-War Period. After the "khaki elections" of 1918, he was made Secretary of State for the Colonies. He, studious Imperialist, had acquired an amazing knowledge of the Dominion Colonies and Dependencies. The War had convinced him that only by a system of preferential tariffs could the British Commonwealth of Nations be welded into an economic unity and, as in everything else, he never wavered in this conviction...
Died. William F. Massey, 69, Premier of New Zealand, in Wellington, N. Z. (see COMMONWEALTH...