Word: dominione
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England wished India to have freedom. But what did Englishmen mean by freedom? They tacitly assumed that it meant something like dominion status. And that perhaps was all that India asked. But this spring, if a speculative reporter asked an Englishman whether he was prepared to give India complete freedom, whether he was willing that neither the King-Emperor nor any other Englishman should have any rule or special rights whatever in the subcontinent of India, it was quite apparent that the average Englishman had never even thought of such a thing...
...rule India's 562 big & small semiautonomous States. Often they have been accused of encouraging British rule as a means of guaranteeing their own powers. But last week, after a meeting of the Chamber of Princes, Chancellor Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanager declared that the Princes would support Dominion status under a constitution framed by India's "main elements...
...that point Winston Churchill, looking around for new administrative talent, cabled Casey an offer to become Minister of State for Great Britain's War Cabinet in the Middle East. It was the first time Britain had offered to take a Dominion statesman into the Home Government. Minister Casey was to replace Captain Oliver Lyttelton (Britain's new Minister of Production) in the vital liaison job in Cairo...
...Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation were frankly was measures universally acclaimed by democrats. They were assailed as such by the Tories of the Revolution and the Copperheads of the Civil War. Today, another crucial war measure, the granting of Dominion Status of India, is assailed only by the enemies of democracy and the appeasers still at large in the democratic capitols of the world. The argument against anti-lynch legislation at the present time because it is a war measure will not stand...
...difficult to add a touch of glory." Yet Author Tomlinson cannot escape the touch of glory at Dunkirk and the thought of Britain's air fighters: "I do not know how to write of those men who, few in number, went up on wings to avert Nazi dominion of Christendom...