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Numerous British newsorgans carried rumors that Edward VIII will go to each Dominion and be crowned its King, then to India for a grand Durbar coronation as Emperor. To light this week came the fact that under the Statute of Westminster the various Dominions have proclaimed Edward their King in different formulas, partly of their own devising. At Ottawa, for example, His Majesty was proclaimed "Supreme Lord in and over the Dominion of Canada," a title which rings exceedingly strange in English ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...wisdom with which he controlled his dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentlemen, the Kings! | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas no reaction to what His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom had done was closer to the general consensus than the reaction of His Majesty's Government in the Dominion of Canada. Cried a Canadian Cabinet Minister close to Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King: "A shameless betrayal of the League! This will strengthen the hands of Canadian isolationists. After this, will anything seem important enough to take us out of our own continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vampire's Caress | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...worth of purchases duty free. Farmers groused because U. S. fruits and vegetables had been given reduced duties. In Ontario, the region most affected, it was believed several Liberal members of Parliament would desert the Mackenzie King government when the trade treaty comes up for ratification in the Dominion Parliament. Said the Winnipeg Free Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: More Abundant Grumbling | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...hand for an historic happening. Chief among the visitors was George Henry Dern of Salt Lake City, Utah. As Secretary of War, he was head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, which had supervised Philippine affairs during the 37 years they had been under U. S. dominion. Now George Dern was in Manila to read a proclamation which Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just signed on the other side of the world in Washington. The proclamation briefly certified the election on Sept. 17 of officers of the new Philippine Commonwealth, announced the succession of the new regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Fireworks & Fear | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

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