Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minor League States including the British Dominions had begun last week by demanding that the League take action of some sort or at least that the Assembly name the "aggressor" (Japan). But slowly, artfully Sir John and other statesmen of the Great Powers got the minor nations in hand. As London's famed Spectator has said, "The motto of Sir John Simon is apparently l'artifice, l'artifice, et toujours l'artifice." Last week artful John, a lawyer accustomed to receive the largest fees charged in the Empire, made short work of such whippersnappers as, for example, the Delegate...
...there would still be left a $400,000,000 gap to fill. How? Where? Canada's lucrative sales tax seemed to be the only practical answer in sight. When the Ways & Means Committee began warming up to the idea of this levy, the Treasury asked the Dominion Government to send down George William Jones, Special Auditor of Excise Taxes in the Department of National Revenue at Ottawa. An expert advocate of the Canadian sales tax who had addressed William Randolph Hearst's junketeers last year on the subject (TIME, Nov. 30), Mr. Jones traveled to Washington. There...
...vote in Capetown last week when the Dominion of South Africa appointed a commission to investigate whether it should stay on the Gold Standard or follow England (and some 30 other nations...
...great fact of these ten years is that southern Ireland, called "The Irish Free State," has enjoyed far greater freedom than ever before. It has "dominion status," is therefore technically as free as Canada. It has even enjoyed greater prosperity during the decade than almost any other part of King George's realm...
...Canadian Premier Bennett has not had to use bullets; but Irish President Cosgrave has, by due process of law. Every year of the past decade batches of Irishmen who wanted a republic badly enough to fight for it have been shot. Spattering lead creates the practical difference between Canadian "dominion status" and Irish, for there is no legal difference...