Word: dominione
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...carillon in Ottawa's Peace Tower, Carilloneur Robert J. Donnell played in succession all the local airs of the Empire countries, burst into "Pomp & Circumstance" at the approach in an open carriage of His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby (pronounced punsunby), Earl of Bessborough and Governor General of the Dominion of Canada...
...Baldwin, speaking for that vast, preponderant part of the British Commonwealth which does not have "dominion status," showed his frank perplexity, lived up to his reputation as one of those Englishmen who follow the proud policy of "muddling through." Said he: "There are two ways in which increased preference can be given?either by lowering barriers among ourselves or by raising them against others. The choice between these two must be governed largely by local considerations. But subject to that, it seems to us that we should endeavor to follow the first rather than the second course. . . . Let us, therefore...
...admittedly unimportant. Undress dickering and secret deals were already going on behind the scenes. British papers printed stories of an accord, said to have been reached by steel producers in the Mother Country and steel consumers in Canada, looking to the shutting out of U. S. steel from the Dominion which bought $168,000,000 worth during the year ending March...
...Great Britain, India and other Non-Self-Governing Lands; 2) Canada; 3) Australia; 4) New Zealand; 5) South Africa; 6) Newfoundland; 7) Irish Free State; 8) Southern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesians hotly maintain that since they are a "self-governing colony" they have the equivalent of "dominion status," but Southern Rhodesia is not in the strictest sense a dominion. Scarcely any U. S. citizens and not many Mother Countrymen can bound Southern Rhodesia which lies 100 mi. inland, from the cast coast of Africa opposite Madagascar. It is bounded on the East by Portugese East Africa (Mozambique), on the South...
...right to declare independence is implicit in "Dominion status" which the Free State...