Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King (TiME, July 5) who was at the time Premier. Not for many a year has a Governor General of Canada refused to heed such "advice" from a Premier, and accordingly the Liberals were able to ruffle the pride of Canadians by the slogan: "Is Canada a (locally autonomous) Dominion, or a (subservient) Crown Colony...
...Dominion status" in the British Commonwealth, and the names of its institutions are unquestionably designed to sound as soothingly free as possible. Strictly speaking its "President" is virtually the "premier" of the resident British Governor General. Similarly, the "Oath of Fealty" is an attempt to make palatable on Irish tongues the traditional oath of allegiance...
Venizelos freed the island of Crete, his birthplace, from Turkish dominion and brought it under Greek rule (1890-1909). He organized the Balkan League, which thrust Turkey back from considerable European territory in the Balkan War of 1912. After the World War, Venizelos proved himself easily the greatest diplomat among the representatives of minor powers at the Paris Peace Conference. His "enticing charm"-as one statesman expressed it-won for Greece so much added territory that the Greco-Turkish frontier is now but 20 miles from Constantinople...
...Beamed approvingly when Premier Baldwin declared that the Government has arranged for an Imperial Conference of all the Dominion Premiers, to meet in London next October...
...will appreciate the relief it will be to me, as I start out to visit the leading cities of the United States and the capitals of our dominion, to know that the question of financial gain from business developments has entirely passed out of my life...