Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Statute of Westminster confirming the Imperial Conference decisions of 1926 and 1930 that "dominion status" implies among other rights the right of secession (TIME, June 30, 1930); sent the Statute of Westminster to disgruntled King George V for enforced "royal approval...
Sensing that Scot MacDonald's "weak" policy is really "strong," the House decisively rejected 369 to 43 last week a die-hard proposal by Winston Churchill specifically to bar India from attaining "dominion status" as defined by the Statute of Westminster (see above). Mr. Churchill argued that "India during the War gained dominion status in rank, honor and ceremony" which, for Indians, he thought, should be enough. Excitedly brandishing a copy of the MacDonald declaration, Alarmist Churchill tried to link with "such weakness" the sharp break in the British pound...
...virtually failed. It broke down on the specific job of trying to draft a new constitution that would make the Government of India responsible chiefly to an Indian Parliament instead of to Great Britain's autocratic Viceroy of India. The larger issue, namely whether India should receive "dominion status" with its implicit right of secession from the British Commonwealth, was not even considered by the Conference-despite the fact that it was the Second Indian Round Table Conference and should have been the last...
...National Government's over whelming majority split for the first time as the above vote took place. Momentarily into opposition bolted die-hard Winston Churchill and 50 Tory M. P.s who thought that that rambunctious Dominion, the Irish Free State, was being granted too much freedom, although the House was only ratifying a decision already made by two Imperial Conferences of British Premiers (1926 & 1930). Paradoxically the official Labor Opposition, led by old George Lansbury, bolted to support the Government, since Labor has always sup ported a policy of granting the Dominions all possible freedom...
Prosecutor Norman Sommerville said that between 4,000 and 5,000 Canadians can now be arrested as Communists. Juries in all provinces of the Dominion can be asked to follow Ontario in deciding that membership in the Communist Party is per se a crime in Canada-which it is not in the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, et al. Facing the legal prospect of filling Ontario's jails, with Reds, Prosecutor Sommerville planned to do still more...