Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news from London last week was that five Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth, assembled in their first conference of World War II, had not agreed to play Big-Power politics in the postwar world. Instead, their only agreement so far had been on a scheme which might be a check against Big-Power politics...
...Zealand's Peter Fraser exclaimed: "I'm from Missouri," fell off the fence on Canada's side. Last week Mackenzie King, addressing both Houses of Parliament, did his best to bury centralization. Said he: ". . . In considering new methods of organization to bring the nations of the Commonwealth closer together, we can not be too careful to see that, to our own peoples, the new methods will not appear as an attempt to limit their freedom of decision or, to peoples outside the Commonwealth, as an attempt to establish a separate bloc. ... I am told that, some where...
World Affair. As usual, Mackenzie King tied up his objections to Common wealth centralization with his general idea that big powers ought not to dominate the world, and that a strongly centralized Commonwealth would be too prone to play Big-Power politics. Precisely that idea seemed to prevail at the conference last week. A closer-to-home reason for his stand was his conviction that Canada must be in a position to go along with her big neighbor, the U.S., even when the U.S. goes against the British Commonwealth...
Winston Churchill, lately a leading player of Big-Power politics, had cannily declined to commit himself. Publicly, he had neither qualified nor abandoned Britain's belief that she must have the Commonwealth & Empire behind her in order to remain a Great Power. His sage old friend, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, came out last year for the strongest possible Commonwealth bloc, as a friendly offset to the U.S. and to "the new colossus," Russia. Last week Smuts kept his counsel about Commonwealth centralization. But when the news of a League plan leaked out, with it came...
...France as a lesser nation, Britain in need of a fresh orientation of power. He says, emphasizing his words by drawing, with his index finger, neat holistic circles in the air: "The axis of the new world, the greatest new development today, is the cooperation of America and the Commonwealth...