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...LOST DOMINION-"Al Carthill" -Putnam ($3.50). Under the title of this book, a florid classicist-an Indian civil servant-whose pseudonym does not hide the fact that at the best he came from Oxford or Cambridge, revels in a verbose interpretation of the history of the British in India. The general conclusion which the author reaches is that the British will one day lose India, for reason that there will be no place for her in the Commonwealth and no tie to bind her to the other Dominions...
...William, a Liberal, is considered one of the outstanding men of the younger generation of politicians. Especially is he noted for his encyclopaedic grasp of foreign, Dominion and colonial affairs. He served brilliantly in the Guards during the War; he proved himself a gifted journalist; he became private secretary to Premier George in the days of the Great Coalition. He also accompanied the Prince of Wales to the U. S. and Australia and was, two years in succession, a British delegate to the Williamstown Conference...
...Powerful forces -premeditated and unpremeditated-are at work for a union of the two great nations of the American continent. United States capital isn't the least of these factors. More than ?500,000,000 of American money now is invested in the Dominion; and it is expected that, before 1925 is out, another ?100,000,000 may be added...
...Post-War Period. After the "khaki elections" of 1918, he was made Secretary of State for the Colonies. He, studious Imperialist, had acquired an amazing knowledge of the Dominion Colonies and Dependencies. The War had convinced him that only by a system of preferential tariffs could the British Commonwealth of Nations be welded into an economic unity and, as in everything else, he never wavered in this conviction...
...Wellington, capital of far-off New Zealand, Death came to William Ferguson Massey, for close on 13 years Prime Minister. He was a laughing man-one of the most genial that ever entered the public life of that Dominion. Mr. Massey was born at Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, 69 years ago; and at the age of 14 went to rejoin his parents in New Zealand, where they had moved eight years before. The embryo statesman became a farmer and, more to the point, a prosperous farmer. He entered Parliament in 1894, the next year becoming Chief Opposition Whip, a position...