Word: dominione
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When Canberra became live news last week on the eve of its emergence as a great capital, many a sterling U. S. citizen felt acute shame at ignorance of almost everything about Australia except its rank as a British Dominion and its position in the Southern Hemisphere...
...were formally at war. We had become "but one of the champions of the rights of mankind". President Wilson's words were taken up and echoed from one end of the world to another. We had declared war to end war; we were fighting not for dominion or for conquest, but in order that some day such strife should not be possible...
...average collegian nurses a desire to spend his summers abroad, going places and seeing things. Realizing this, the Canadian Government and the Canadian Pacific Railway have cooperated in inviting Oxford students to Canada in order that they may see England's American colony and also help harvest the Dominion's wheat crop...
...Despatched through his Foreign Minister Conrado Rios a belligerent proclamation to Chileans in Tacna-Arica:* "You must not be afraid for the future of Tacna-Arica. That territory can only be robbed from our dominion and flag by force of bayonets. The time nears to notify the American nations that the will of the Chilean people is to terminate United States intervention and fix our boundary on the River Sama line. If Peru continues her haughty demands Chile accordingly is under the moral obligation to declare that Tacna-Arica will be annexed to its dominion...
...have judged it expedient to confer the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon our trusty and well-beloved the Hon. Charles Vincent Massey, member of our Privy Council in Canada, with the especial object of representing in the United States of America the interests of our Dominion of Canada...