Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major party on the Canadian political scene is the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation which, according to the latest Gallup poll (Dec. 4, 1943), would divide the popular vote with the old-line parties (Liberals, 31%; Progressive Conservatives, 29%; C.C.F., 26%), might even ride into power...
...Manhattan last week Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Leader M. J. Coldwell said he would like to see the Dominion join the Pan American Union. That made it all but unanimous with Canada's top political leaders...
...last of a generation: a personal journalist with more power in his own country than Dana, Greeley and Watterson had had in theirs. For 42 years in the Free Press he fought fiercely for the things he believed in: the survival of the individual, free trade, a liberal British Commonwealth, the League of Nations. At the end, a tired old lion of a man, he knew, as Canada did, that he had influenced the thinking of an Empire...
Conservative Borden, Liberal Dafoe were agreed upon one thing: the Dominion should have a voice in the peace. So the Prime Minister took Editor Dafoe to Versailles as adviser. There and thereafter Dafoe fought for the idea of the British Commonwealth, and the League of Nations. When, in 1935, he saw the League was dying, he said: "A universal smash is right down the road...
Cope's proposed solution: Englishmen should agree to form a republic, Afrikanders should accept it and agree to stay within the British Commonwealth. Anti-British Afrikanders, who outnumber and might outvote the English, were delighted. The English press was hostile. ("Sheer folly," grunted the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail...