Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats in the Legislature. Liberals secured three seats and a Labor candidate, endorsed by the Conservatives, won the single place remaining. Thus, was a Liberal majority of 40 turned into a Conservative majority of the same number. At Ottawa, jubilant Conservatives prophesied the rout of the Liberal Dominion Government in the expected imminent elections...
...theory, the Dominion need not support the Mother Country in any policy or war which she undertakes; in practice, it has never worked out that way. It is thus argued that, if the Dominions are morally obliged to support the United Kingdom, and since they have (following the signing of the Versailles Treaty which Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Union of South Africa signed separately) international status as independent nations, the least that could happen in equity would be to give them a share in the control of the destinies of the British Commonwealth...
Last week, the United Church of Canada (TIME, Jan. 19) came officially into being. Hereafter, 30% of the people of the Dominion will worship at churches bearing that name. But in brackets will appear the old names-Presbyterian, Methodist or Congregational...
...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...