Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great and good friend: "I have conferred the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon Mr. William Phillips, a distinguished citizen of the United States. . . . He is well informed of the desire of this government to cultivate to the fullest extent the friendship . . . between Your Majesty's Dominion of Canada and this country...
...therefore, request Your Majesty to receive him favorably and to commend him to the officials of the Dominion of Canada in order that full credence may be given to what he shall say on the part of the United States of America...
When Canberra became live news last week on the eve of its emergence as a great capital, many a sterling U. S. citizen felt acute shame at ignorance of almost everything about Australia except its rank as a British Dominion and its position in the Southern Hemisphere...
Just as the original 13 American United States grew so mutually jealous that in 1790 it was necessary to set aside the District of Columbia; so, in 1911, the Dominion Parliament of Australia created the Federal Territory of Canberra, because the six Australian states* could not abide that Melbourne, Victoria, should continue indefinitely Australia's capital...
...were formally at war. We had become "but one of the champions of the rights of mankind". President Wilson's words were taken up and echoed from one end of the world to another. We had declared war to end war; we were fighting not for dominion or for conquest, but in order that some day such strife should not be possible...