Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Powerful forces -premeditated and unpremeditated-are at work for a union of the two great nations of the American continent. United States capital isn't the least of these factors. More than ?500,000,000 of American money now is invested in the Dominion; and it is expected that, before 1925 is out, another ?100,000,000 may be added...
...Post-War Period. After the "khaki elections" of 1918, he was made Secretary of State for the Colonies. He, studious Imperialist, had acquired an amazing knowledge of the Dominion Colonies and Dependencies. The War had convinced him that only by a system of preferential tariffs could the British Commonwealth of Nations be welded into an economic unity and, as in everything else, he never wavered in this conviction...
...Wellington, capital of far-off New Zealand, Death came to William Ferguson Massey, for close on 13 years Prime Minister. He was a laughing man-one of the most genial that ever entered the public life of that Dominion. Mr. Massey was born at Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, 69 years ago; and at the age of 14 went to rejoin his parents in New Zealand, where they had moved eight years before. The embryo statesman became a farmer and, more to the point, a prosperous farmer. He entered Parliament in 1894, the next year becoming Chief Opposition Whip, a position...
True, the war men now marching through his dominion called themselves "The Black." They were "The Enemy" in occupation. But their speech be trayed them?they were countrymen...
...Visit. The Prince's coming unquestionably has an object of the very highest importance to the country and to any Government, whatever its complexion, that is in power. This object is less a formal visit to the last unvisited Dominion, less a question of London policy, still less an attempt to reconcile Boer and Briton, than a national rally to combat the greatest peril of the white man in South Africa...