Word: commonwealths
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...Washington last week Mike Elizalde took an oath to uphold the Philippine Constitution as Minister without Portfolio in President Quezon's Cabinet. Thus he became in effect, the Philippine Commonwealth's Government in Exile. Of Minister Elizalde's mother and three brothers, now presumably prisoners in the hard little hands of the Japs, there was still no word...
...Proclamation of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, dated January 19, 1942, issued pursuant to proclamation of the President of the United States, dated January 5, 1942, the third registration under the Selective Service Act will be held in Massachusetts on Sunday, February 15, 1942, and Monday, February 16, 1942, between the hours mentioned above...
...Proclamation of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, dated January 19, 1942, issued pursuant to Proclamation of the President of the United States, dated January 5, 1942, the third registration under the Selective Service Act will be held in Massachusetts on Sunday, February 15, 1942, and Monday, February 16, 1942, between the hours mentioned above...
Dominions' Dilemma. The War Cabinet sits in London; it is primarily responsible to the British Parliament; and up to now it has consisted largely of Winston Churchill (with whom eight other members of the full British Cabinet make up the War Cabinet). A keystone of the Commonwealth system is that the four Dominions-Australia, Canada, New Zealand. South Africa-are not responsible to the British Parliament. Yet under the present system the War Cabinet must, and does, bear the Empire's burden of decision in World...
...Prime Minister Curtin; New Zealand's Peter Fraser tended to go along with London and Winston Churchill, did as little as a near neighbor could do to support Australia. Of all the Dominions, Canada had long been the most aggressive in her demands for autonomy within the Commonwealth. Her Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King stoutly stood with Churchill, content to let London run the Empire...