Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the balance of power and responsibility within the British Commonwealth of Nations shifted. The Dominions loomed a little larger, London a little smaller. It was a slight shift; the bulk of the power to make war decisions and nearly all the responsibility remained in London; but any change at all foretold greater ones to come...
...clue. In Washington, Joaquín Miguel Elizalde, Philippine Resident Commissioner, admitted that he was perplexed at the reports that came from the islands. Boyish, athletic Mike Elizalde gave up his suite at the Shoreham Hotel and took modest living quarters on the fourth floor of the redbrick Philippine Commonwealth Building. For Mike Elizalde, as for all Filipinos to greater or lesser degree, the change meant a test of the Filipino character as it has not been tested in 44 years...
There Richard Casey wrote The Commonwealth of Australia in a bold hand. When the Greek Minister wrote his neat, self-controlled Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, the consonants reached across the parchment. Said Adolf Berle to the Polish Ambassador: "My dear Ambassador, your Greek colleague has already taken part of the space reserved...
...Commonwealth at War. Australia has done a pretty fast job of adapting her industries to her war needs. Basically a pastoral country, producing more than one-quarter of the world's wool, Australia had to switch quickly to heavy industry when war broke out. Already possessing the largest single plant dealing with alloys of steel in the world, the Commonwealth in two years stepped up steel production from 1,200,000 tons to 1,700,000 tons (U.S. production in 1940: 67,000,000 tons...
...India as a condition of all-out war effort. This week, a group of Indian moderate leaders appealed to Winston Churchill for "some bold stroke of farsighted statesmanship" providing that henceforth India's "position and powers will be identical with those of other units in the British Commonwealth...