Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Bricker, plowing on against odds favoring Tom Dewey, moved into California last week. At a press conference in San Francisco's ancient St. Francis Hotel, he surprised newsmen with his growing sureness as a campaigner, pleased photographers by turning his handsome profile. Then, before the heavily Republican Commonwealth Club, which had heard from Harold Ickes on the day before, John Bricker made his fightingest speech...
...uncomfortably close to the home grounds, there has been less talk of world order and much more of immediate security. In their Canberra Agreement last January, Messrs. Fraser and Curtin proposed to build a great Pacific arc around New Zealand and Australia, pledged a common, regional policy within the Commonwealth...
Australians, twice committed to foreign wars along with Britain, increasingly insist that the whole Commonwealth should share in the making of British policy. Prime Minister Curtin has suggested an ambulant Empire Council with a permanent secretariat to frame policies. Lord Halifax, one of Britain's senior statesmen, was closer to Australian than to Canadian Government opinion when he suggested a common policy in which the Commonwealth would speak "not by a single voice but by the unison of many...
Union Then. "After the war our aim must be the unification of Europe as a cooperative commonwealth"-a project which seemed more feasible when there was no possible way to do it than it does now. (In the U.S. the idea of a Federated Europe was just beginning to dawn...
...rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service, free medical services, homes and nurseries for poor children, recreational clubs. Through the Church and the Government, he fought for slum clearance, boosted low-price housing projects, and the establishment of more parks, playgrounds and country...