Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding about the pitiful ruins and damp, weedy shambles of recaptured Manila, G.I. jeep drivers used to refer to the Kweezon Bridge, Kweezon Boulevard, etc. However they mangled the name, sharp, dapper, bantam-sized Manuel Luis Quezon, (rhymes with stays on), late President of the Commonwealth, left his mark on the Philippines...
Under the heading of gifts for immediate use came the donations for the Palmer House relocation, gifts grouped under the Commonwealth Fund for the study of arthritis, delinquincy study in the Law School, studies in endocrinology, medical-psychiatric teaching, bacterial nutritive requirements and cancer research...
...When we feel that the times in which we live are difficult and uncertain, a good remedy is . . . to take out a map of the world 'and look at the United States and the British Commonwealth and Empire; to measure what they add up to in population, in natural resources and in industrial power; and, above all, to think what will be the effect if this massive weight is placed solidly behind...
...York Times story about aspeech of Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin at Paris was the statement: "It must always be kept in mind that Mr. Bevin . . . is talking not only for Great Britain but for the whole British Commonwealth." This apparently innocuous statement was not taken that way by Canadians...
...House of Commons at Ottawa, Maxime Raymond of the nationalistic Bloc Populaire rose to ask Prime Minister Mackenzie King a question: Is it correct that Mr. Bevin spoke for the whole Commonwealth? Did Mr. Bevin speak for Canada...