Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of the Irish Sea about 60,000 persons live on an island. The island is called Man, the people Manxmen, and their cats, which are without tails, Manx Cats. The history of the Isle of Man is obscure and old. At present it is a British crown dominion, and many of its inhabitants emigrate to the U. S. or elsewhere. Of these emigrés there was a gathering last week in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Manxmen to the number of 600 attended, World Manxmen to the number of 400, and Manxmen direct from Man to the number...
Fellow passengers included three statesmen who will sign the Kellogg Treaty, respectively, for Canada, Rumania and Czechoslovakia. The Canadian was suave, jovial Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The others were Rumanian Minister at Washington George Cretziano and his Czechoslovakian colleague, Minister Zdenĕk Fierlinger...
...speaker who could not be arrested preached flat disloyalty to George V and mere lip loyalty to the British Crown before a huge audience at Harrismith in the Union of South Africa, a British Dominion. "We don't accept the King of England," he roared, "but only his Crown...
Strangely enough this astoundingly incautious orator was not a "Red." He is simply a grizzled South African statesman of Dutch stock who has risen to the highest office in the Dominion. The office is that of "His Majesty's Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably...
Even so, however, General Hertzog is by far the most secessionist of all the Dominion Prime Ministers; and at the last Dominion Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 to Dec. 6, 1926) it was his bite which finally nipped the British Commonwealth into formal recognition that: 1) The Dominions are nations, with rights to accredit diplomats to non-British countries; 2) Great Britain is on a plane of "equality under the Crown" with the Dominions; 3) Great Britain, while continuing to administer the colonies and the foreign policy of the Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions...