Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain has assumed-rightly or wrongly is beside the point-the definite obligation to lead India to honorable adult membership of the family of free and equal nations, either inside or outside the tenuous bonds of the British Commonwealth. The development of Indian self-government has been clearly denned British policy since 1917. In 1929 it was clearly stated by the British Government that Dominion status within the Empire was India's manifest destiny, a free and equal partnership with the other self-government Dominions. India could have had such status for the taking in 1935. She has recently...
...week after Queen Wilhelmina went on record for a free Netherlands Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people (TIME, Dec. 14), Adolf Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Anton Adrian Mussert "Leader of The Netherlands people...
Last week Malta's Constitutional Party, backed by the Labor Party, demanded self-government for the island. Unlike India's Congress, Malta's leaders did not demand complete independence. They asked only that Malta be a self-governing partner in the British Commonwealth; the British Government's promise of full self-government after the war would be good enough...
...opposition, Bracken was a wise choice for the Tories. They have been unable to outdo the conservatism of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party. At the same time they have offered no program to offset the "frightening gains" of the mildly socialistic C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation). In Bracken the die-hards saw a realist with statesmanlike qualities that were most eloquently expressed in his backing of the ill-fated Sirois report (TIME, Jan. 27, 1941). Young liberal Tories saw in Bracken at least a partial answer to their demands for vision in government and dynamic leadership...
...height of her great 30,000-word argument is reached when she shows how invaluable a German nation would be in creating a World Commonwealth, if the power that has created the New Order were focused the other...