Word: dominione
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...announced that His Majesty's Government, which has been aiding Italy by refusing to sell arms either to Italy, which has plenty, or to Ethiopia, which is short, would probably not lift this embargo at least until after the League Council meets on Sept. 4. After all the dominion representatives in London had been discreetly contacted, Premier Forbes of New Zealand excitedly declared, 11,682 miles away in Wellington: "If Great Britain is involved in war New Zealand will be also...
...Duke of Gloucester, whose tour of Australia last year was considered in the Dominion a hint that King George would like to appoint him its Governor General, was passed over last week when His Majesty finally acted on the advice of Premier Joseph Aloysius ("Honest Joe") Lyons...
...South Australia in 1928, and since 1934 has been Governor of New South Wales. Thus Premier Lyons, famed as Australia's "Great Compromiser," went as far as Australian public opinion would permit last week in advising His Majesty to appoint as Governor General an Old Etonian, something no Dominion today cares to stomach...
...will continue to do so." Meanwhile New York Times Correspondent Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled : "Persons who attended the royal garden party last week noticed the almost affectionate greetings that Mr. Morgan received from the King and Queen. He had waited patiently at the end of a long line of Dominion High Commissioners and minor officials, who filed quickly past with nothing more than a formal handshake from the King and Queen...
Last week scrawny St. Gandhi, some-what in eclipse since he failed to win Dominion Status for India, thrilled 350,000,000 Indians anew by announcing at Calcutta, "India cannot ignore Benito Mussolini's threat against the dark-skinned people. Although India is under British rule, she is a member of the League of Nations, and fully entitled to assist against another nation, in a noncombatant...