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...burdens of statehood would be far too heavy. A fertile maker of political phrases, the governor has not yet found the exact word to describe the system under which Puerto Rico will eventually live. "If the U.S. were the British Empire," he once said, "you might call it dominion status...
...77th birthday in Cape Town's House of Assembly. His wife gave him a homebaked, old-fashioned Boer pie, called a "milk tart"; the Nationalist party bigwigs came through with a desk and a black leather briefcase. In return, Africa-Firster Malan pledged once again to cut the Dominion loose from the British Commonwealth. Said he: "We shall become a republic. We must become a republic...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, 67, Australia's top soldier, second Dominion man (after Jan Smuts) to attain field marshal rank; after long illness; in Melbourne. After a spell as Deputy Commander in Chief in the Middle East during World War II, he brought his rugged Australian "desert rats" back to the Southwest Pacific, mopped up Jap-infested islands that were bypassed in the Allied advance...
...addition, U.S. citizens invested $363 million in Canadian-owned enterprises last year. Altogether, U.S. interests in Canada today come to nearly $7 billion-33% of all U.S. foreign investments. Americans directly control at least 25% of Canadian manufacturing industry. And they own major chunks of most of the Dominion's greatest industrial mammoths. Since 1944 for example, U.S. ownership of voting stock in the Canadian Pacific Railway has climbed from...
...half; and 2) a cut in the maximum credit period for installment buying from 18 to twelve months. The new restrictions are tougher than those imposed in the U.S. (where installment payments may extend through 15 months). They are also tougher, in the case of automobiles, than the Dominion's own rules at the height of World...