Word: dominione
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...fuming over the Simon report (TIME, June 30 et ante). Baron Irwin said that he spoke "rather as friend than as Viceroy," referred to India as a "country," declared in ringing tones: "His Majesty's Government last year authorized me to declare that, in its view, the attainment of dominion status was the natural completion of India's constitutional growth. That declaration was made and [despite the Simon report] stands...
...arctic air route expedition, commanded by H. G. Watkins, the group will remain until autumn of 1931, amassing weather data, exploring the ice cap of Greenland, making aerial surveys of the east coast of Greenland and into the far North-all for the purpose of linking England and her Dominion by a direct flying route. From Greenland west, the Canadian Government will conduct surveys over the wilds of Baffin Land...
After the MacDonald-Baldwin-Lloyd George conference the London press was tentatively informed that, although the Simon Report does not mention and is clearly opposed to granting India so-called "Dominion Status," the Government contemplates "discussing" this concession with Indian leaders...
...Right of Secession of any Dominion is nothing less than the foundation stone, the very test, of its independence and freedom. Any Dominion which gives up its right of secession or acknowledges that it has no right to secede has no right to talk of freedom...
...agitated House then passed an amendment recording that South Africa accepts the Imperial Conference Declaration of 1926 solely in the sense that Dominion Status includes the Right of Secession. Academic though even so acrimonious a debate may seem, it is of burning importance and vital bearing on the Indian question. St. Gandhi has rejected all tentative offers of Dominion Status on the ground that in the form Great Britain would be prepared to offer it to India it would not include the Right of Secession. Therefore he launched his movement for Independence. If South Africa now establishes that all Dominions...