Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commonwealth & Empire. The Dominion Premiers stood "in firm array" after their recent conference (TIME, May 1 et seq.). Said Churchill: "We have advanced from vague generalities to more precise points of agreement, and we are in a position to carry on discussions with other countries within limits which we have imposed upon ourselves...
...those limits, imposed by a strong sense of Dominion independence, seemed unduly narrow to the Prime Minister, he did not seem to worry unduly. In fact, referring to Commonwealth & Empire, he got off a fine Churchillian quip: "The word Empire is permitted to be used, which may be a great shock to a certain strain of intellectual opinion...
Newest Is Old. World War II's first "new" nation is one of the world's oldest democracies. Discovered by Irish explorers in 795 A.D. (according to De Mensura Orbis Terrae, written in 825 A.D. by Dicuil, an Irish monk), Iceland was an independent commonwealth until 1264. Then it became a Norwegian protectorate, finally (in 1387) a Danish colony. Its Althing (Parliament; literally, The Thing) is 1,014 years...
...members of the Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...
...last week, Britain and Canada had differed on details, but had agreed on the main principle that an international authority should govern the world's postwar airways. The U.S., fearing that any such authority would be weighted too much on the side of British and Commonwealth interests, was willing enough to agree on international standards and an international advisory body, but wanted to leave the actual administration to each country concerned. , Out of last week's foofaraw, four revealing points emerged...