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...only one to make expenses since the war has been the one remaining in private hands. In 1920 the Canadian Government lost $70,000,000 in operating the roads; and in 1921 another huge deficit coupled with the $100,000,000 interest which had to be paid, cost the Dominion half its income. The attached shipping enterprise under government control has also caused grave losses, the capital lost in ships estimated at about one-half...
...acquired either by cession and conquest or by discovery and occupation, and discovery surely gives the United States a prior and just claim on Wrangel Land. Stefansson, on the other hand, states that the United States has allowed her claim to lapse by not occupying her possession and exercising dominion over it,--and the polar bears. And we are forced to admit that the statement is true, since the United States has not, to the best of our knowledge, established there a Governor General and stuff, nor yet, strangely enough, attempted to colonize it or turn it into a naval...
...perhaps in Egypt as well. Yet to comply with them would cause the breaking of promises made to Jews and Arabs as to Jerusalem and Mecca, and the return of the Sultan to Constantinople. It would further entail recognition of the power of the Moslem in a British dominion, as well as the relinquishing of India to confusion. For the Hindus are not yet ready for complete self-rule, despite the great extension of powers granted them through an Indianized civil service, representation in the League of Nations, and equality with other dominions. Then, too, it would seem, from...
PRINCETON, N. J., April 15, 1921.-- The Yale Freshman debating team upholding the establishment of a dominion form of government, defeated Princeton here tonight in a 2-1 decision...
...HAVEN, CONN., April 15.-- The Yale Freshmen debating team defeated the Harvard 1924 team here tonight by a 2 to 1 decision. The winning team supported the negative of the question, "Resolved: That the interests of the Irish People will be best furthered by the establishment of a dominion form of government for Ireland...