Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion of this House, steps should now be taken, in consultation with the other members of the British Commonwealth, to create in Western Europe a political union strong enough to save European democracy and the values of western civilization; and a trading area large enough, with the colonial territories, to enable its component parts to achieve economic recovery and stability...
...would also include economic clauses. France and Italy have been discussing plans for a customs union for five months, will soon sign an agreement on economic cooperation. The Benelux countries have already set up a common customs system. But Britain, staking her economic future on imperial arrangements in the Commonwealth and Empire, has held back from economic merger with continental countries...
...restricted to discourage such dog torturing as occured in a recent Stanford University fraternity initiation. But the real, basic issue is clear-cut. In New Jersey, where vivisection is outlawed, there are no medical schools. The life of 5000 dogs a year is not worth the strangulation of all Commonwealth medical research, which can easily balance a human life saved for every dog killed...
Massachusetts' House of Representatives yesterday backed with an 81 to 21 vote a bill to prevent Communists from teaching in any Commonwealth school or college...
...Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...