Word: dominione
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...long awaited "peace terms" offered by Mahatma Gandhi to the British Government were duly forwarded by Viceroy Lord Irwin to London last week. Nationalist demands were reported to be simply: "Give us Dominion status and we will abandon the civil disobedience campaign...
...foreign observers this demand seemed modest enough. The British Government has continually implied that it was maintaining India in tutelage only until she could be educated to Dominion-hood. But the British lion last week roared his amazement at St. Gandhi's "diabolically clever'' plan. If the Labor Government attempted to give India Dominion status it would fail with the next election, said English politicians. If it did not, Indians would not attend the September round table conference, another blow at the Laborites...
...Issue. Just as U. S. Republicans and Democrats stand broadly for much the same things, so do Canadian Conservatives and Liberals. There is a little ''religious issue" up in Saskatchewan (the Catholics claiming that Protestant Bennett is abetting the Canadian Ku Klux Klan) but this is scarcely of Dominion importance. Down east in Quebec there is the issue of "conscription." Canada had a Conservative government during the War. Its members forced conscription upon all Canada, against the bitter protests of Quebec. After the War, Quebeckers (who had been called "cowards" by their ancient Ontario enemies) turned Liberal and have stayed...
...going to let the United States write Canada's tariff act!" he has exclaimed with effective horror upon numerous platforms. He has asked, "Shall this be?" Waving the maple-leaf-embroidered shirt of Canadian patriotism, he has suggested that Mr. King is in effect almost a traitor to the Dominion...
...were the big blond Norwegian Vikings. Russian-reared Olaf Tryggvessön (969-1000) sailed into Norway, overthrew its ruler, made himself King. Then he began the country's conversion to the religion which he himself had not long held. In 1015 Olaf ("The Fat") Haraldsson (995-1030) similarly obtained dominion, made all Norwegians Christians, reigned with cunning and cruelty 14 years. Then discontented nobles forced him to flee, killed him when he tried to return. But after miracles were worked at his tomb, his misdeeds were forgotten. Olaf the Warrior became Norway's patron saint, canonized...