Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour...
...building on that expectation. . . . Only if we are beaten down and the greater part of the fleet has been sunk in action will the remains of it leave home to assist in the defense of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other distant parts of the Commonwealth. ... It is my view that we are standing today not in the outer trenches of our old joint naval defense system but in the last trenches...
Last week the American Medical Association, meeting in Manhattan, put on a big show (see below). It also elected a new president (term: one year). Surgeon Frank Howard Lahey, "the Mayo of Boston," is famed for his scientific achievements. In 1922, Dr. Lahey started a small clinic on Commonwealth Avenue, with Drs. Lincoln Fleetford Sise and Sara Murray Jordan, outstanding woman gastroenterologist (specialist in intestinal disorders) in the U. S. Dr. Lahey specialized in clipping thyroids. So dexterous was his technique that within 17 years he and his associates had performed over 15,000 operations, lost only 100 patients...
...that modern Canada makes U. S. neutrality a fiction. What is modern Canada? Not merely a source of wheat and man power to Britain, as it was in World War I, but strategically and industrially the Empire's second line of defense, potentially the keystone of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Facts: >Canada is a more logical shipping centre than the United Kingdom. About 50% of Britain's foreign trade is with countries that could be as well or better served, even in peacetime, from Canadian ports. London to Brisbane: 11,700 miles; Vancouver to Brisbane...
...close union of England and France officially announced as a war aim and whichever way the war breaks, John MacCormac believes Canada is on her way to becoming a first-class power-either as the refuge of a beaten Britain or the central unit of a renewed British Commonwealth...