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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a knight, even a Jewish knight, has been appointed Governor General of a British Dominion, he has every right to expect that he will be made a peer the next time His Majesty makes a batch of peers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jewish Birthday | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...66th birthday of George V rolled round last week, Australians expected that among the "birthday honors" would be a peerage for Sir Isaac Isaacs, new Australian Governor General, only native-born G. G. of a British Dominion (TIME, May 5, Dec. 15, 1930). When the Honors List was published at London, Australians were disappointed. Native Sir Isaac Isaacs got nothing-possibly because of the unconcealed anger of George V, who objected vigorously when the Australian Government refused to accept the Duke of York as Governor General, forced His Majesty to appoint Sir Isaac, a man whom he did not "even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jewish Birthday | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Squawks from U. S. Senators in Washington greeted last week the budget speech to Canada's House of Commons made by Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious Dominion Premier & Finance Minister. At the last election Canadians gave Mr. Bennett a mandate to up their tariffs in Uncle Sam's face. Last week Conservative Bennett upped high, upped quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bennett Budget | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...classifications on Canada's tariff list 174 were upped. Also, one embargo was laid. Totally excluded from the Dominion by this embargo are all secondhand automobiles except those brought in by "tourists" or "settlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bennett Budget | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Brazil Moratorium? Year ago Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer of the Bank of England reported on Australia, advised the Dominion merely to "retrench." In Buenos Aires last week correspondents were "reliably informed" from a Government source that Sir Otto would give Brazil a different piece of advice. His report would recommend, the correspondents were told, a "national moratorium" (postponement of payments) on all foreign obligations of Brazil's Na tional and State Governments. Sir Otto, although Vice Governor of the Bank of England, went to Brazil to oblige her chief British bankers, the House of Rothschild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nations Must Live | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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