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...mined border into Holland en route to Britain - there heard Chamberlain defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials-and in 1940 she traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Quito getting acquainted with many important policymakers south of the Rio Grande...
...Friend Winston Churchill wants Dominion leaders (as the London Times said) "to withdraw themselves temporarily from national administration and bring their contribution to the common pool." Included in the "common pool" of Empire are such matters as postwar air power, midwar diplomacy, trade relations, soldiers' postwar employment, Lend-Lease settlement...
Major Clement R. Attlee, Leader of the Labor Party, and Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, took on Anderson's Presidency of the Council. Major Attlee's chief recommendation for any Cabinet post is his hierarchical position in the Labor Party...
Viscount Cranborne (Robert Cecil), Leader of the House of Lords, became Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, a position he held from 1940 to 1942, when he became Lord Privy Seal. Cranborne lives at Cranborne, where he raises roses rare and magnificent, plays a smacking croquet game called "golf," collects Low cartoons (see p. 38), talks good British politics. He resigned with Anthony Eden over Britain's appeasement of Italy in 1938, is impersonally competent...
...Canadian Order in Council provides that six months after war's end half of all oil wells and similar developments revert to the Dominion, the other half to the company developing the project...