Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would the voters, remembering the depression of the 19303 and well aware of dangerous days ahead, decide to try something new? If so, they would vote for the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, led by onetime Schoolteacher M. J. Coldwell. The CCF stands for public ownership of big business, natural resources...
...British labor, echoing Europe's mood of social change, was grimly set by Aneurin Bevan, leftist M.P.: "We want the complete extinction of the Tory Party and 25 years of Labor government." The Labor Party's program was outlined in a sweeping nationalization program for "a Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain" (TIME...
...London the British Government issued a white paper outlining a staggered plan for Burma's "full self-government within the British Commonwealth." Its three stages : 1 ) since the colony's progress has been interrupted by the Japanese invasion and occupation, direct rule by the governor of Burma will continue until December 1948; 2) by that date, it is hoped, elections will have been held, the prewar partial self-government enjoyed by the Burmans restored; 3) thereafter the Burmese people, having agreed among themselves, will draft a constitution to be approved by the British Parliament...
...Utter weariness had kept him close to the cottage ever since he had arrived in Warm Springs, a little less than two weeks ago. He had seen few people. A week before, he had received President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines, and had told Osmena that he hoped the Commonwealth might soon achieve its independence. He had looked drawn beneath his tan then...
...B.O.A.C.-managed corporation, with a sprinkling of steamship-company money, to operate routes to the U.S., the Far East and the Commonwealth...