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...East stirred restlessly, like a monster aroused from an age-old sleep, as new conquerors threatened the age-old dominion of Britain. To an appeal from the London Times to end his civil-disobedience campaign in view of Britain's growing peril, Mohandas K. Gandhi replied curtly that the campaign "must continue at all costs." In Iran tension increased with the fear that Russia was preparing to drive toward the Persian Gulf. In Iraq Nazi plotters had already unsettled Britain's hold (see p. 37), and Nazi Schemester Franz von Papen appeared to have cowed Turkey into some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Preparations for Armageddon | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Winston Churchill had just conferred honorary degrees on these two men: personifications of Dominion support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: This Turning Point | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Mary is planned for the visitors, with an address later by the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88, President of the Board of Overseers. After the regular Board meeting, the Overseers will adjourn to meet in the afternoon at the restored House of Burgesses, the legislative body of the Old Dominion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers Will Hold Meeting in Virginia | 4/17/1941 | See Source »

...Ottawa Agreements of 1932 giving preferential tariff treatment (to Dominion exporters) gave H. R. MacMillan Export Co. a big boost. So naturally Lumberman MacMillan is as loyal to the Empire as to Canada. As the head of Canada's shipbuilding program, he may well have one of the Empire's most important posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Canadian Buzz Saw | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...protocol specified protection of Canadian defense interests in Newfoundland; the exchange of notes* provided for the time when Newfoundland, temporarily under British administration to reorganize its finances, will again become ? Dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President's Week, Apr. 7, 1941 | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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