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...High Commissioner is a diplomatic officer, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a colleague. The Governor General is an alter ego of the King, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a sovereign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Campbell Is Coming | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...Joseph Sirois of Quebec was a provincial notary and professor of Constitutional Law until 1937, when he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations. A year later he succeeded Newton W. Rowell as chairman of the Commission, and for two years he labored tirelessly to produce what came to be known as the Rowell-Sirois Report - virtually a new constitution for Canada. The report was a plan to end the incoherence, irregularity and overlapping of powers which exist among the nine provinces of Canada, to centralize fiscal and social policies in the Dominion Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Farewell to Reform | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...reconstruction of Canada's Constitution and taxation system. Mitch was the first to reply. He read a brief which not only rejected the report but insulted its authors as well. To him the report was a well-cooked nefarious deal" to get provincial debts taken over by the Dominion Government to the profit of provincial bondholders-something the report guarded against by recommending a capital-gains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Farewell to Reform | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Land. The Dominion has already-formed eight Army divisions-three more than in World War I. From a land of only 7,000,000 people some 100,000 Australians are now in the Middle East or in England. New troops are enlisted at the rate of 5,000 a month. A home-defense force of 250,000 is being conscripted. In the last year 80,000 new troops have been trained. Last week plans were announced for a costly program of mechanizing the whole Australian Army, both home-defense and expeditionary, with tanks and armored carriers to be built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Dominion in Arms | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...After World War I the Dominion saved money by reducing armaments, relying on British sea power. It ignored Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson's plea for an independent Australian Fleet of 52 first-line ships by 1933. Today the chagrined Government finds itself with only two 10,000-ton cruisers, five lighter cruisers, eleven destroyers. New ship ways have been laid down, but not for several years is Australia's naval strength likely to give, say, a Japanese admiral cause for more than a slantwise smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Dominion in Arms | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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