Word: dominione
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...nothing to the shocker which President Quezon delivered two days later. To a press conference, besides confirming reports that the U. S. and Philippine members of the Joint Committee had differed sharply before the departure of the former, he announced that he would welcome proposals for dominion status for the Philippines but that such proposals "must come from someone else." Said Shadow Boxer Quezon: "If anybody wants a dominion status let him bring it out. If there is any reason why we should not be independent in 1946, we had better start talking about some-thing else...
...most of this year discussion of the keystone treaty has proceeded at a tepid pace with Secretary Hull frankly in the suitor's role, Great Britain favorable to an agreement but hesitant to disturb the network of preference agreements with her Dominions which followed the Ottawa Conference of 1932. These agreements were discussed by the British Government with Dominion representatives at the Imperial Conference after the Coronation, apparently without settling which part of the Empire should make the necessary concessions to the U. S. But during the past troubled month of European diplomacy the British Cabinet suddenly took...
Since no one has seriously advanced the idea of dominion status for the Philippines since the 1946 independence date was set three years ago, Shadow Boxer Quezon's novel cry for "someone else" last week seemed to suggest that what he really wanted was the unbeatable situation of occupying both corners of the ring. At week's end he relaxed from his labors, entered a hospital to have his appendix...
...time upon demand, is entitled An Act Ensuring Publication of Accurate News and Information. The second would arbitrarily increase taxation of Alberta banks $2,000,000 per annum, and the third makes this possible by classifying "banks" as "credit institutions," thus making them liable to measures which under Dominion law could not be applied to them as banks. All three were so extraordinary that the King's Lieutenant-Governor refused to sign and sent the bills to Lord Tweedsmuir, the Governor General who in legal fiction is "the Person of the King in Canada...
...Toronto this week Lord Tweedsmuir called Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King into conference, and those two were expected to work out some robust Dominion scheme of cracking down on Premier Aberhart. One way would be simply to stall around until the collapse of Bible Bill's Social Credit regime which has gravely unbalanced the budget of the Province without ever paying a single $25 dividend...