Word: dominione
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Englishmen were asking one another earnestly last week-as Englishmen will- "Why should not Palestine become the Seventh Dominion of the British Crown?" Specifically this question was asked, in a large and lofty way, by several M. P.'s of each British party-Conservative, Liberal and Laborite-who assembled last week in London to found the Seventh Dominion League. Sat, as chairman of the meeting, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, M. P. (Labor), flanked by Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Kenworthy, M. P. (a Liberal until 1926, now a Laborite), and by Lord Hartington, M. P. (Conservative), heir of the 9th Duke...
...these three men of the sword, and to many of their Parliamentary colleagues, there is something almost of divine providence in the idea of turning Palestine - which Great Britain holds under a mandate from the League of Nations - into a Dominion...
...this assertion of independence as the goal of a great political party, by persons who would claim the title of responsible politicians. Those in Great Britain who sympathize most warmly with the idea of India attaining at the earliest possible moment the status of any of the other great dominions of the Crown will find the ground cut from under their feet if British opinion ever becomes convinced that so-called dominion status was valued by India only as a stepping-stone to a complete severance of her connection with the British Commonwealth...
Technically all political parties have now been suppressed, by royal decree, but in fact the authorities have concentrated on dispersing the Croat Peasant party, which has demanded for Croatia-Dalmatia local autonomy and the status of a dominion (similar to Canada) under the Crown at Belgrade. It was the leader of this party, Stefan Raditch, who was assassinated in the parliamentary chamber last summer. The assassin, Deputy Punica Ratchitch, an ardent supporter of General Zivkovitch, has not yet been brought to trial...
...community of interests existed on which to found a new government. The situation had grown steadily worse since the assassination of Croat leader Stefan Raditch in Parliament (TIME, July 28) and last week the numerous Croatian deputies clamored furiously for local autonomy, demanding for Croatia a sort of "dominion status" under the crown at Belgrade. Since King Alexander is no Croat but a Serbian he was exceeding vexed. After two days and nights of consultation His Majesty's patience with the politicians grew thin. Finally with vigorous pen strokes the king signed three decrees...