Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lend-leased a symphony conductor to the Commonwealth of Australia this week. He was the Philadelphia Orchestra's chunky, barrel-chested Maestro Eugene Ormandy. The lease was arranged (through OWI) at the request of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, which expects Ormandy to conduct at least 18 symphony concerts in big Australian cities, as many Australian army camps as he can reach in ten weeks of touring...
...this definition, in the spring of 1944, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are unquestionably Great Powers. Britain is a conditional Great Power. (The conditions: 1) that the Commonwealth and Empire hold together; 2) that the U.S. is not hostile to Britain.) Germany and Japan are fading Great Powers. China is a potential Great Power (but the economic advances essential for such stature will require decades). France may again be strong (but France will not rank with the Great Powers...
Britain and the World. In the last twelvemonth, Great Britain's foreign policy has taken these lines: 1) closer economic and political arrangements among the Dominions and Colonies of the Commonwealth and Empire; 2) close, friendly relationships in western Europe (with particular reference to Holland, Belgium, Norway, France); 3) intimate relationship with the U.S.; 4) friendship and cooperation with the U.S.S.R. London has accepted the view that the U.S. will make no postwar commitments to Britain or to any other European nation if they mean that the U.S. would automatically have to go to war to back...
Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth gathered in London last week for discussions trending toward a tighter Empire. Busiest of all was little, persistent Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins of Southern Rhodesia. He lunched with Winston Churchill, sat with the War Cabinet, shot the breeze with Canada's W. L. Mackenzie King, New Zealand's Peter Eraser, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts. Inevitably, out of his pocket came Huggins' Plan No. 1, or Huggins' Plan No. 2, or both. He was a man with something to sell...
...pedestal inscription: ''Your hinterland lies there." He became the busy-tongued champion of Huggins' Plan No. 1: to amalgamate the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, form one big (488,300 sq. mi.) Dominion in the British Commonwealth. That idea made him a Prime Minister...