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There was no surer way of rousing rage. Australians disagree among themselves about almost everything (State jealousy has given the Dominion three separate railway gauges) but they have in common a grand wholehearted despisal of anything and everything to do with...
...They are paying the foreigner first!" shouted Canberra M. P.'s last week. Dominion Prime Minister James Henry Scullin, more tactful, opined that "the impending default by New South Wales will undoubtedly have a detrimental effect on the good name of the Australian people and on their credit as a nation...
...tariff on U. S. exports will be further upped (Mr. Bennett being determined to batter down the U. S. tariff wall eventually by reprisals); and next month Mother Britain will come in for a buffet when Canada's provincial premiers meet for a Dominion Conference. As foreshadowed in the Speech from the Throne this historic conclave will sever virtually the last restraining bond and make Canada completely free of domination by London. This it will do by revoking the act which makes His Majesty's Privy Council in London the court of last resort in Canadian litigation. Once...
Great Viceroy. Obviously Lord Irwin has drawn St. Gandhi very close to acceptance of the so-called "Reserved Dominion Status" which Scot MacDonald has offered India in lieu of absolute freedom (TIME, Jan. 26). Said the Nationalist (i. e., Gandhite) Hindustan Times, amazingly last week, "If Lord Irwin has earned an immortal place in the history of India, it is not only for showing himself a strong Viceroy, although even there he has had few rivals among his predecessors, but it is also for having shown an outstanding capacity for statesmanship and for having saved India for the Empire...
...cablegram to the London Daily Herald, St. Gandhi as much as said last-week that he would not accept the Indian Conference-Ramsay MacDonald scheme for "Reserved Dominion Status" under which India's defenses and finances would be under British control...