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Boat hooks, cruisers and skilled diplomats can no longer save Britain from frightening collisions. It has been booted ignominiously from Iran, set upon in Egypt, ambushed in Malaya, even sniped at by Argentina. Burma has left the Commonwealth, Ceylon is thinking of leaving. Six of the great overseas Dominions are now as sovereign as Britain itself, legally bound to the mother island only by the thread of mutual allegiance to the Crown. India, though a Dominion, does not even recognize the Crown. Except for short periods, Britain has been unable to pay its way since 1918. At an alarming rate...
...Ottawa, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported that November's cost-of-living index was down one-tenth of a point to 191.1-the first drop since December 1949. Ottawa economists hoped that the inflationary spiral had been arrested, thus vindicating their program of strong credit controls and their dogged rejection of Tory and CCF demands for price ceilings...
...oldest of Britain's leading politicians; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Radnage, England. Starting out as a physician, he went to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1910, later switched to Socialism, in 13 governments successively became Munitions Minister, Minister of Health, Minister of Agriculture and Dominion Secretary, and after he got his title, became Labor's leader in the House of Lords...
...apply for readmission to the British realm as some kind of protectorate. The Colonial Office in London would see to it that good government was once again brought to America. Perhaps, a few hundred years hence, you might then be mature enough to join Canada as a self-governing Dominion with Ottawa as capital...
...have our rights, God also has His rights over us; and in vain shall we seek our rights until, confessing our sins, we recognize in all brokenness and humility the dominion of God over the course of history and of human life...