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Meanwhile Prime Minister Hertzog continued his labors in Pretoria, scouting the idea that a "republic" could have greater practical freedom than have all British "dominions." To prove his point he read the famed definition of "dominion status," which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain has declared "destined to become historic" (TIME...
...Dyke issued a smashing reply to Dr. Walker: "May a humble Presbyterian, who has himself held the honorable office of Moderator in that church be permitted to ask politely by what right or authority Dr. Walker assumes this 'Temporal Dominion' in the United States? ... I have not the pleasure of knowing Mr. Volstead personally, but I am unwilling to believe that he is wiser or better than the Lord Jesus Christ, who not only used wine but . . . made...
...midst of the Irish Sea about 60,000 persons live on an island. The island is called Man, the people Manxmen, and their cats, which are without tails, Manx Cats. The history of the Isle of Man is obscure and old. At present it is a British crown dominion, and many of its inhabitants emigrate to the U. S. or elsewhere. Of these emigrés there was a gathering last week in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Manxmen to the number of 600 attended, World Manxmen to the number of 400, and Manxmen direct from Man to the number...
Fellow passengers included three statesmen who will sign the Kellogg Treaty, respectively, for Canada, Rumania and Czechoslovakia. The Canadian was suave, jovial Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The others were Rumanian Minister at Washington George Cretziano and his Czechoslovakian colleague, Minister Zdenĕk Fierlinger...
Even so, however, General Hertzog is by far the most secessionist of all the Dominion Prime Ministers; and at the last Dominion Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 to Dec. 6, 1926) it was his bite which finally nipped the British Commonwealth into formal recognition that: 1) The Dominions are nations, with rights to accredit diplomats to non-British countries; 2) Great Britain is on a plane of "equality under the Crown" with the Dominions; 3) Great Britain, while continuing to administer the colonies and the foreign policy of the Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions...