Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only part of the British Commonwealth of Nations not at war with Germany, Eamon de Valera's Republic of Eire has steered placidly and prosperously outside the blockade of all belligerents. His neutrality policy worked so well over the war's first nine months that Prime Minister "Dev" had lately been thinking of holding a general election to cash in on its success. Last month's rape of three little neutrals not so far away upset all that. Appalled Irishmen promptly forgot political enmities energetically cultivated since the civil war. Even William Cosgrave, who rose from saloonkeeper...
...acute criticism of Clarence Streit's Union Now (a proposal for a federation of democracies). He argues that practical provision must be made for Latin America and the totalitarian States, in a new Association of Nations with regional departments such as the Pan-American Union, the British Commonwealth of Nations, a European Federation, a Pacific Conference, the U. S. S. R. What distinguishes Mr. Buell's intricate program is a realistic sense of quid pro quo: e.g., a Danubian Union would need guarantees from Britain; to give them Britain would need a guarantee from...
...verbal hemorrhage . . . judgepaul-bulljohnson denounced the editor of the Daily News as a cowardly assassin of character or something to that effect. . . . Our plea is not guilty. We have never assassinated the character of the most dangerous demagogue who ever afflicted a long-suffering commonwealth...
...prizes of $75 each for the best translations into Greek and Latin. One prize was for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in George Santayana's "The sense of Beauty," and the other for a translation into Latin of a passage in James Bryce's "The American Commonwealth...
...School and his scholarly wife Eleanor know plenty about bad boys. They have studied bad boys-1,000 of them-for 15 years in Boston. By 1934, the Gluecks were ready to explain why the boys went wrong. This week they made a second report, Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up (Commonwealth Fund...