Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother of King George VI, landed in Ottawa last week, where he was welcomed by the Earl of Athlone after a nine-hour hop in a four-engined, American-built Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Purpose: a six-week coast-to-coast tour inspecting the progress of the monster British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In the R.A.F., the Duke holds the rank of Air Commodore on the staff of the Inspector General...
...promised "all possible aid to China and Russia-and immediately," drew a picture of Germany caught between two hostile camps supplied by the U.S.* "People of England!" cried Roosevelt's Hopkins. "People of Britain! People of the British Commonwealth of Nations! You are not fighting alone. Your Prime Minister asked us for tools. I promise you that they are coming. . . . President Roosevelt promised me that he will take steps to insure delivery of goods consigned to Britain. Our President does not give his word lightly...
...Russia is but the latest country suffering unprovoked attack by Nazi Germany; it is contending for the principles of national freedom and independence for which the British Commonwealth and the United States of America are standing...
Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur, Military Adviser to the Philippine Commonwealth, had just taken a demotion in rank. As he stood at a window in his penthouse apartment atop the swank Manila Hotel, looking out on the bay, on the brooding fortress of Corregidor, he was (for practical purposes) no longer a field marshal or the four-starred general he had been when he retired three and a half years ago from the U.S. Army. His Commander in Chief had just called him back to that Army in reduced but impressive rank...
When Douglas MacArthur became Philippine military adviser in 1935, the plan was to train 40,000 Filipinos a year until the Commonwealth Army reached a total of 400,000 active and reserve. Today, after a series of cuts in appropriations, the Philippine Army is 75,000-Moros, Tagalogs and Igorots-a cross section of the Islands' population. Its reserve totals 50-75,000 more, all with five and a half months of MacArthur training. Its officers are young, for the Army was started with no backlog from an officer class. Most of them are trained in the Philippine Military...