Word: dominione
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...Passed the Statute of Westminster confirming the Imperial Conference decisions of 1926 and 1930 that "dominion status" implies among other rights the right of secession (TIME, June 30, 1930); sent the Statute of Westminster to disgruntled King George V for enforced "royal approval...
Sensing that Scot MacDonald's "weak" policy is really "strong," the House decisively rejected 369 to 43 last week a die-hard proposal by Winston Churchill specifically to bar India from attaining "dominion status" as defined by the Statute of Westminster (see above). Mr. Churchill argued that "India during the War gained dominion status in rank, honor and ceremony" which, for Indians, he thought, should be enough. Excitedly brandishing a copy of the MacDonald declaration, Alarmist Churchill tried to link with "such weakness" the sharp break in the British pound...
...virtually failed. It broke down on the specific job of trying to draft a new constitution that would make the Government of India responsible chiefly to an Indian Parliament instead of to Great Britain's autocratic Viceroy of India. The larger issue, namely whether India should receive "dominion status" with its implicit right of secession from the British Commonwealth, was not even considered by the Conference-despite the fact that it was the Second Indian Round Table Conference and should have been the last...
...avoid squabbling and charges of favoritism, the Mother Country would not fix a separate quota for her imports from each Dominion. Instead British wheat importers would be required to show that a certain percentage of all their imports (55% was suggested), came from one or more Dominions. Inter-Dominion competition for the British market would thus be kept keen...
...make the quota law enforceable and prevent wheat 'legging, certificates of "dominion origin" would accompany each shipment and the British Government would check these certificates at the British importer's warehouse, then double-check at British flour mills, where each miller would be obliged by law to maintain the 55% "dominion proportion" in each & every sack of British flour...