Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carillon in Ottawa's Peace Tower, Carilloneur Robert J. Donnell played in succession all the local airs of the Empire countries, burst into "Pomp & Circumstance" at the approach in an open carriage of His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby (pronounced punsunby), Earl of Bessborough and Governor General of the Dominion of Canada...
...Baldwin, speaking for that vast, preponderant part of the British Commonwealth which does not have "dominion status," showed his frank perplexity, lived up to his reputation as one of those Englishmen who follow the proud policy of "muddling through." Said he: "There are two ways in which increased preference can be given?either by lowering barriers among ourselves or by raising them against others. The choice between these two must be governed largely by local considerations. But subject to that, it seems to us that we should endeavor to follow the first rather than the second course. . . . Let us, therefore...
Cross Currents. Why should Canadians buy either English or U. S. motor cars when they can buy such things as Mc-Laughlin-Buicks built in Canada by the Dominion affiliate of General Motors? Why should Australia buy British steel when she has expensively erected a mighty steel plant to fabricate her Sydney "Dream Bridge," now complete (TIME, March...
...many Englishmen, though not of course those in closest touch with the situation, think that the basis of negotiations [at Ottawa] will be a free entry for Dominion food and raw materials into the United Kingdom (with tariffs against foreign countries) in return for a similar free entry of English manufactures into the Dominions. This, of course, is a complete illusion. Canada, Australia, South Africa and India, especially the first, have all become largely industrialized on the basis of tariffs, and they have no intention whatever of allowing effective English competition with their industries...
...right to declare independence is implicit in "Dominion status" which the Free State...