Word: dominione
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...young Rabs that Tory leaders look for their successors." In 1931, Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, made Rab his parliamentary private secretary, sent him to India to discuss the bill which was to give India a federal constitution and eventual dominion status. Soon, with the sponsorship of Stanley Baldwin, Butler was promoted to Under Secretary. When Hoare fell ill during debate, Rab took his place at the dispatch box. He knew India, and he knew his bill. Attacked from the left for going too slowly, abused from the right by Winston Churchill and the diehard imperialists...
Despite the U.N. ban on shipping strategic materials to Red China, the British Dominion of Ceylon (not a member of the U.N.) 14 months ago negotiated an agreement with Red China to trade rubber for rice. Last week, after Peking enthusiastically offered to follow up its trade envoys with a good-will mission, new Premier Sir John Kotalawala made clear that the Communists are welcome in Ceylon's counting room, but not in its parlor. "I have sent a reply to the Chinese reminding them we have a trade agreement and to let our relations remain that...
...escort?" Next day, the royal plane set down at Jamaica's tourist-fringed Montego Bay. The Queen was presented by Jamaica's Chief Minister William Alexander Bustamante with a hand-printed address of welcome, containing a wishful hint at the old dream of a West Indian dominion. A day later, Elizabeth noncommittally advised the island's legislators to "build on the principles of parliamentary government." The royal couple had driven 120 miles, in blistering heat, across the island to Kingston, pausing along the way for a quick dip in the Caribbean. Visibly wilted, the Queen could muster...
...Ceylon, two nationalist M.P.s got up a petition asking the Queen not to visit that dominion on the ground that her visit would be too expensive. In the British Parliament, Bevanite and near-Bevan-ite Socialists were once again raising the cry that royalty was too costly ($1,700,000 a year) and too undemocratic. A Socialist scolded the Queen for maintaining a private enclosure for the horse races at Ascot; a Methodist minister scolded her for going to races at all ("They are full of racketeers"). The same outraged Methodist berated the Duke of Edinburgh for playing polo...
...Mounted Policeman who had just taken his post by the door. Then, with a friendly wave to the crowd, he retreated to the warmth of his private car. A few moments later the presidential train crossed the border and President Eisenhower began his two-day state visit to the Dominion...