Word: dominione
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...National Government's over whelming majority split for the first time as the above vote took place. Momentarily into opposition bolted die-hard Winston Churchill and 50 Tory M. P.s who thought that that rambunctious Dominion, the Irish Free State, was being granted too much freedom, although the House was only ratifying a decision already made by two Imperial Conferences of British Premiers (1926 & 1930). Paradoxically the official Labor Opposition, led by old George Lansbury, bolted to support the Government, since Labor has always sup ported a policy of granting the Dominions all possible freedom...
Prosecutor Norman Sommerville said that between 4,000 and 5,000 Canadians can now be arrested as Communists. Juries in all provinces of the Dominion can be asked to follow Ontario in deciding that membership in the Communist Party is per se a crime in Canada-which it is not in the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, et al. Facing the legal prospect of filling Ontario's jails, with Reds, Prosecutor Sommerville planned to do still more...
...pursue a policy designed to re-establish . . . confidence in our financial stability and to frame plans for ensuring a favorable balance of trade." Carefully the speech avoided saying that these "plans" would include tariff. His Majesty also announced that last year's abortive economic conference of all British Dominion delegates at London will be resumed next year at Ottawa, added a pious allusion to the deadlocked Indian Round Table Conference: "It is my earnest prayer that the deliberations . . . may be crowned with success...
...round table conference-which he did not-the independence bloc would not attend. Chief cause of this Hurley-burly was that the swart little legislators felt slighted, and perhaps anxious at the Secretary of War's going around asking the people what they thought of U. S. dominion instead of coming to the people's duly elected officers for his information. Meanwhile, the trim War Chief kept going, kept asking questions. At Zamboanga he was told that 300,000 Moros were temporarily satisfied with American rule (total Philippine population: 12,604,100). A fatalistic delegation of them presented...
...London hearers would agree with his conclusions, they were amazed at his scientific erudition. They knew him historically as a Boer lawyer who bitterly fought the English subjugation of South Africa in 1900-02, who so made the best of defeat that his home land became a British Dominion and he eventually its Prime Minister and Empire privy councillor. In the World War he generaled a British Army. After the War he suggested the idea of the League of Nations to Woodrow Wilson, helped make the peace treaties. "Slim Janny" and "Happy Warrior" have long been his nicknames...