Word: dominione
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Darwin he got a Japanese bomb splinter in his head during an air raid. He met his old chief of staff, Douglas MacArthur, upon the latter's arrival in Australia. Then he took off for New Zealand as the first U.S. Minister to that Dominion (the job for which he had ostensibly been sent to the Pacific in January...
...British and Dominion correspond ents in North Africa last week got a letter from war-hard, polite General Sir Harold Alexander, General Eisenhower's Commander of Land Forces. It contained: 1) words of caution; 2) a hint of the coming Allied offensive. It said...
Sumner Welles had gone to Toronto to get an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Then, to an audience of students and Dominion bigwigs, Sumner Welles delivered the address that reduced months of generalizations to something tangible...
...Juliana of the Netherlands awaited the birth of her third child. If the child should be a boy, he might some day rule The Netherlands, but birth on British soil might make him technically a Briton, would complicate matters. Therefore to smooth the path of the Dutch succession, the Dominion Government last week decreed that during the hours of childbirth (expected this month) Canada will grant extraterritorial rights to the birthplace and suspend all its sovereign claims to that part of the earth under the delivery room...
...India to honorable adult membership of the family of free and equal nations, either inside or outside the tenuous bonds of the British Commonwealth. The development of Indian self-government has been clearly denned British policy since 1917. In 1929 it was clearly stated by the British Government that Dominion status within the Empire was India's manifest destiny, a free and equal partnership with the other self-government Dominions. India could have had such status for the taking in 1935. She has recently been promised self-determination after the war, either inside the Commonwealth...