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Moncado startled Filipinos by advocating "dominion status for the Philippines under the United States." Quezon and Osmeña stuck to their Nationalist platform, which calls for outright independence for the Philippines in 1946. But Manuel Quezon, whose passion for secession has been minified lately under the shadow of Japanese aggression, admitted to his people that independence now is in the hands of no one man or country, but in the lap of the gods...
...fortnight ago the Conservatives began to pull up their socks. Leader Hanson announced that ill health would force him to quit his job. Last week, at a two-day conference in Ottawa, the Dominion's Conservative bigwigs chose as the new leader of their Party tall, patrician, 67-year-old Senator Arthur Meighen, a lawyer, financier and two-time (1920-21, 1926) Prime Minister of Canada...
...seek. It went back to last winter, when Patullo and the Premiers of the other eight Provinces journeyed to Ottawa at the invitation of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The Prime Minister wanted the Premiers to agree to a more rational economic setup for the Dominion, to reconstruct and centralize tax powers. Because his free-spending administration did not want to give up a smidgen of tax power, Premier Patullo attacked the plan. With the aid of Ontario's windy Mitch Hepburn and Alberta's William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, he sank it. What the Premier...
...obedient satellites (see p. 32) seemed prepared to help in the conquest of Africa, which would cut the British Empire into eastern and western halves. With Russia gone, China could do little but accept a peace dictated by the senior partner of the Axis. If the Axis spreads its dominion over the continents of Eurasia and Africa, the pincers will be ready to reverse their bite. The U.S. would then be squarely in their jaws, with Britain in one ocean and Australia in the other as outposts of the Western Hemisphere...
Waiting for scrappy Premier Hepburn in his own country was a fight that promised to be more serious than heated telegrams or radio polemics. This week the Dominion Government will grapple with the question of taking over part of the provinces' revenue sources for war needs. Though it would be like losing teeth, observers thought that for politico-patriotic reasons Mitch would have to give up some of Ontario's cherished pin money, possibly sign away the Province's share of the joint dominion-provincial income...