Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vent their spleen by constantly bedeviling the British Government. Last week the British mint refused to quote prices for minting a new series of Irish Free State coins from which the Irish designers had omitted the head of the King Emperor George V. which appears on all British and Dominion currency. The British mint authorities, suave, intimated that it might be difficult to circulate the coins among Empire citizens accustomed to accepting only the sovereign's face at face value. Irish Free State Finance Minister Ernest Blythe, brusque, intimated that he might offer the U. S. mint...
...Dominion premiers assembled in London at the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 25 et seq.) dined at Buckingham Palace last week off a stag recently shot by George...
While the U. S. celebrated Navy Day (see p. 11) and the Japanese Ministry of Marine called for a larger fleet (see p. 18), the Dominion Premiers of the British...
Premierial Pre-Occupations. Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Australia, conscious that his Dominion needs the protection of the British fleet against Japan, remarked significantly: "Our people are now spending 18 shillings [$4.38] a head per year on defenses, practically twice as much as all the other dominions put together, and only five shillings less per head per year than the English taxpayer. . . . We would like to see each part of the Empire similarly bearing the common load...
Naturally Premier James B. M. Hertzog of South Africa, his Dominion safely distant from foreign naval threats, did not touch upon what his taxpayers might be willing to contribute to Empire defenses. General Hertzog was undoubtedly preoccupied instead last week, with the news that one of his chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting...