Word: dominione
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...suggested: Let Great Britain grant the United States title to Jamaica, British Honduras, Bermuda, The Bahamas, British Guiana, the Falkland Islands, Trinidad, Dominica, Santa Lucia, Tobago, British Leeward Islands, British Windward Islands and all other British possessions in the Western Hemisphere including all Pacific Islands but excluding the Dominion of Canada in complete fulfillment of her financial obligations...
...addition Great Britain would grant complete independence to the Dominion of Canada. This last act would be a nice gesture of respect for our Monroe Doctrine and remove one more foreign nation from the Western Hemisphere...
...step of restricting imports by 10%, announced that for the last half of 1939 imports would be restricted by 33⅓%. This move, although resulting in a more favorable trade balance, was deeply resented by British Empire manufacturers who had always had a free and open market in the Dominion...
...mile drive through Canada's wheat city. Dignitaries were warned against too hearty handshaking, for the King had pinched two fingers in a train door. It was Queen Victoria's Birthday-Empire Day-and the King, after listening to professions of loyalty broadcast from every colony and Dominion of the Empire, replied with his best speech of the trip...
First piece of luck for the correspondents was the four-day wait for the delayed royalty in Quebec. During those days they practically lived in the cool, dark, comfortable Terrace Club of the Château Frontenac, improving their dispositions with the mild distillates of the Dominion. When the Royal ship docked at Wolfe's Cove, the New York Herald Tribune's Edward Angly, the Times's Raymond Daniell and John MacCormac, the A. P.'s Frank H. King and U. P.'s Webb Miller appeared on the dock in morning coats and striped trousers...