Word: dominione
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...Kent promptly made plans to open branches in Australia. Bustling George Garcia, the Australian Chairman of Aspro Ltd. which sells Europeans half a billion headache tablets yearly, crowed: "I am elated. Australia has always been keen on the Royal Family. We want a governor general from outside the Dominion who can make unprejudiced decisions. The Duchess will appeal to Australians because she is beautiful and chic and a mother...
...Duke & Duchess of Gloucester are now touring in British Africa. Neville Chamberlain, in close collaboration with the Dominion Prime Ministers, is preparing to play every Empire drawing card from Kents to Quints. Dr. Dafoe announced last week that the five Wards of the King will be taught how to curtsy to royalty before Their Majesties arrive next Spring...
...ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status for Indo-China, he was soon in trouble. He had collected Khmer statuary which the authorities insisted should be turned over to the Government. Malraux refused, lost a suit in the lower courts but won an appeal when it was learned that the documents submitted in the case dealt...
...Hitler Map. The Berchtesgaden Plan of last fortnight went far beyond the demands which the Sudeten German Party repeatedly in August told British Mediator Viscount Runci-man would satisfy not only their "Little Führer" Konrad Henlein but also the Führer. Henlein asked "states rights" or "dominion status" for the Sudetens, and the Czechoslovak Government reluctantly consented. In the traditional British role of "broker" in major quarrels on the Continent, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, after ascertaining fortnight ago that France was ready to yield and join in causing Czechoslovakia to yield still more than anyone would have...
Teuton blood courses through many veins in the British Dominion of the Union of South Africa and, during the long-brewing international crises between Czechoslovakia and Germany, cagey Premier James Barry Munnick Hertzog has refused to commit himself for or against the Nazis. But last week, as events in Europe rolled toward war, the Premier indulged in a sudden burst of loyalty to the Mother Country, personally took to the Assembly floor to oppose a pro-Nazi deputy's motion that South Africa refuse to support Britain if war comes. 'T am still very confident that there will...