Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Dorothy Thompson yesterday told her readers that "The Government of the United States, whose head is the President, is charged by the people of this country to accomplish two things: to see to it that the British Empire and Commonwealth are not defeated and destroyed, and to keep us out of participation in the war as active belligerents." This is a concise and accurate statement of the basic formula of foreign policy summed up by the popular phrase "all-out aid short...
...real Commonwealth of Nations, united by effective political ties" will be the outcome of this envigorated Pan-Americanism in Alfaro's opinion...
...literature is the words of men of action. Afterward come the poets. To the small men of Britain in 1940 Winston Churchill spoke words that may live as long as Shakespeare's: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say "This was their finest hour...
...London in August, or at the latest by the middle of September. And had not he always been right about his military dates? Was it not certain that England was going to be conquered and that with Hitler's crossing of the Channel the end of the British Commonwealth would come...
...Commonwealth of Nations as the Man of the Year...