Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visit to South Africa has been most instructive, and I intend making other visits in the Empire, in order to acquaint myself with the problems of the various countries concerned in my department. I have a visit to another dominion in mind, but it would be unwise to tell you at present...
...inability of the Spaniards to quell the rebels in their area of Morocco caused grave apprehension in France and Italy. The map of Northern Africa depicts four areas whose inhabitants are under the suzerainty of foreign Powers: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya. Morocco is mainly under French dominion and is a remarkable example of how low the great Shereefian Empire has fallen; for, still a monarchy, it is subjected to the French Republic and is now of little or no political importance. Algeria and Tunisia are likewise French possessions, while the greater part of Libya belongs to Italy under the name...
...ship weighed anchor and carried the British Heir Apparent to the land which might, had there been no American Revolution, have been his Royal father's greatest dominion...
...House that the Government intended ito promote the home production of beet sugar by granting a subsidy of 19 shillings and sixpence-about $4.25-per hundredweight (112 Ibs.)-to the industry. ¶ J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, informed the House that the system of dominion representation at the Premiers' Conference had been most unsatisfactory, and that the Government proposed to call a Commonwealth conference in or about October to settle the procedure of giving the Dominions an effective voice in the Commonwealth's foreign policy. ¶ The Chancellor of the Exchequer outlined the Government...
Some 13,000 Boy Scouts assembled in the stadium at the British Empire Exhibition for an "Imperial Jamboree." Every Dominion, Colony and dependency in the British Commonwealth of Nations was represented. There were white scouts, black scouts, chocolate scouts, bekilted scouts, befezzed scouts and beturbaned scouts. The Duke of Connaught, President of the Boy Scouts Association, opened the Jambo ree. Chief Scout of Wales, Edward Windsor, Prince of Wales, officiated at the opening of the Jamboree ceremonies