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Votes & Issues. As the year opened, Secretary of State for India Lord Pethick-Lawrence dutifully reiterated Britain's old promise: she would do all she could to help India reach Dominion status. For over three years, in one form or another, Britain had been offering just that-postwar independence inside the Empire (i.e., Dominion status), provided Indians could agree among themselves on what form of self-rule they wanted. Hindus wanted a united, free India; Moslems wanted a separate state for themselves (Pakistan) inside a free India. Both Hindus and Moslems wanted the British...
...Dominion was now one of the three great trading nations in the world (the others: the U.S. and Britain...
...atom bomb, she had been accorded a high place in the top councils of the world. Last week, at the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers (see INTERNATIONAL), Canada was invited to join the Big Five in deciding what to do about The Bomb. It meant that the Dominion was virtually assured of a place on the Security Council of the United Nations Organization...
...Canada's colonial subservience to the "old country" was all but gone. George VI was, theoretically, still King of Canada, and would remain so. But the ties that long bound the Dominion to Mother England's apron had frayed and snapped, one by one. Of the legal strings, only one remained: in civil lawsuits, Britain's Privy Council is still Canada's court of final appeal. And elimination of that last bond was already in process...
...Java, the five-month-old Indonesian Republic of President Soekarno and Premier Sutan Sjahrir wanted full political independence, not dominion status in a Netherlands Commonwealth. According to the A.P.'s Vern Haugland, back from a tour of Java's hinterland, the Republic was well-entrenched and popular...