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...hard to find much more that the Conference did accomplish. In the name of His Majesty's Government, Sir Samuel, a stalwart Tory, refused to fix a date for the establishment of an Indian Federation (first step toward "dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round...
...amazing roster of Canadian potency for his directorate. With him on the board will sit President Arthur Blaikie Purvis of Canadian Industries, Ltd., "the du Pont of Canada"; Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, foxy Prime Minister of Quebec since 1920; Sir Robert Laird Borden, Wartime Prime Minister of the Dominion and head of Barclay's Bank of Canada; Norman James Dawes, head of National Breweries, Ltd.; Hon. Charles Avery Dunning, a power in the prairie provinces; Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne, head of Sherwin-Williams Co. of Canada (paint); Sir Charles Blair Gordon, president of Bank of Montreal and an officer...
...Duke has his way Scotland will receive a sort of Dominion status with its own Parliament and George V may consent to the gesture of a Scottish coronation at which he would wear, for the first time, the Crown of Scotland, an ancient Stuart treasure once worn by Robert the Bruce and now preserved in Edinburgh Castle...
...second effort to protect British agriculture got under way last week with the organization of Empire Farmers' Co-Op., Ltd., an inter-Dominion society to limit production of foodstuffs throughout the British Empire with the announced goal of raising and pegging prices 25% above present levels. Chairman of E. F. Co-Op. is that most composite Empire peer, Trevor Grant of Grant, Baron Strathspey, who was born in New Zealand, is a Baronet of Nova Scotia, lives in Scotland...
...Were told by breezy Dominion Secretary James Henry ("Jim") Thomas that the Anglo-Russian Trade Treaty of 1930 is incompatible with the Ottawa tariff accords, and that therefore His Majesty's Government renounced the treaty last week, giving the Soviet Government the required six-months notice before trade rupture becomes effective. Mr. Thomas mentioned Argentina, Denmark, Norway and Sweden as countries invited by His Majesty's Government last week to send representatives to London "for the purpose of discussing tariffs"- this being Great Britain's opening move in a campaign to force the U. S.. France...