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Word: commonwealths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australia found itself bursting with spring blossoms and a Labor Government last week. The Labor Government, the Commonwealth's first in ten years, got in through a squabble over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Change for £1 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...leading capitalists. Director of a string of "half-crown" stores, he is sometimes called Australia's Woolworth. He has been sharply criticized by Labor and the trade unions many times. But both he and Independent Wilson agree with Labor that the war should be financed with Commonwealth bank credits instead of through the higher-interest-bearing plan proposed by onetime Accountant Fadden (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Change for £1 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Canada, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan graduated its 20,000th ground-crew technician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: Scores | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...Imperialism Out. Said Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.: "No one wants an 'American Empire' with an American Rudyard Kipling to sing the glories of the White Man's burden. . . . The American genius is the genius of a commonwealth and not of an Imperial system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The World We Want | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...purpose of the conference: "We had the idea when we met there, the President and I, that without attempting to draw final and formal peace aims, or war aims, it was necessary to give ... a simple, rough and ready wartime statement of the goal toward which the British Commonwealth and the U.S. mean to make their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New White House Spokesman | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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