Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawyer Burchell helped draft the historic Statute of Westminster, which defined the British Dominions' status as free and sovereign nations, united only in common allegiance to the Crown. Now he was going to the home of a man who has been talking a new and tighter Commonwealth policy: Jan Christiaan Smuts...
With the evident approval of the men who govern Britain, Elder Statesman Smuts sees the Empire of the future more closely united on policy, open to association with other European nations (TIME, Dec. 13). Such a Commonwealth might become the British counterweight to Russia and the U.S. in a future world...
About such a policy the occupants of Ottawa's East Block have evident misgivings. The principal one is that the stresses & strains of any centralized policy for an Empire of widely different peoples and interests might well split the Commonwealth asunder. Canada's new High Commissioner, able Lawyer Burchell, is just the man to explain the East Block's views to Elder Statesman Smuts...
...Regina, where it held its first convention in 1933, the Socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation last week held a political powwow with a new purpose. C.C.F.'s aim, in what may be the party's decisive year: to get its leaders talking the same language all across Canada...
Canada's young, yeasty and frankly Socialist C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) party gave Canadian financiers something more to worry about. It began to talk about nationalizing the Dominion's big life-insurance business ($7 billion in insurance in force...