Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finer feels that he has returned to academic life for good, and plans to fulfill a lifetime ambition in the near future by writing a 1944 version of James Bryce's "The American Commonwealth...
Manuel Quezon, 65, first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, lay in a log house at Saranac Lake, N.Y. He was listening: his physician was reading aloud from the Sermon on the Mount. Tuberculosis had almost conquered his fighting-bantam little body. But he did not believe he could die when the sun was shining, and now it was bright morning. After a while he asked that the radio be turned on. The news: U.S. troops had landed at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Manuel Quezon, who had dreamed of re-entering Manila with General MacArthur, exclaimed: "Just 600 miles!" Then...
...what is our own in the Commonwealth, that we don't want any other people to express an opinion about. That we will firmly retain...
Died. Sir Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, 57, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth since World Chief Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powell's death in 1941; in Herfordshire, England. In merit-badge circles. Scout Cocks was chiefly famed for first-aid work (he was onetime World War II Red Cross commissioner in Egypt...
King George VI, broadcasting to the people of his empire and commonwealth, spoke a measured, modest plea: "I desire solemnly to call my people to prayer and dedication. We are not unmindful of our own shortcomings. We shall ask not that God may do our will but that we may do the will of God, and we dare to believe that God has used our nation and empire as an instrument for fulfilling His highest purpose...