Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff on U. S. exports will be further upped (Mr. Bennett being determined to batter down the U. S. tariff wall eventually by reprisals); and next month Mother Britain will come in for a buffet when Canada's provincial premiers meet for a Dominion Conference. As foreshadowed in the Speech from the Throne this historic conclave will sever virtually the last restraining bond and make Canada completely free of domination by London. This it will do by revoking the act which makes His Majesty's Privy Council in London the court of last resort in Canadian litigation. Once...
Great Viceroy. Obviously Lord Irwin has drawn St. Gandhi very close to acceptance of the so-called "Reserved Dominion Status" which Scot MacDonald has offered India in lieu of absolute freedom (TIME, Jan. 26). Said the Nationalist (i. e., Gandhite) Hindustan Times, amazingly last week, "If Lord Irwin has earned an immortal place in the history of India, it is not only for showing himself a strong Viceroy, although even there he has had few rivals among his predecessors, but it is also for having shown an outstanding capacity for statesmanship and for having saved India for the Empire...
...cablegram to the London Daily Herald, St. Gandhi as much as said last-week that he would not accept the Indian Conference-Ramsay MacDonald scheme for "Reserved Dominion Status" under which India's defenses and finances would be under British control...
...King, on recommendation of R. B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, offered the Governor Generalship of that Dominion to the Duke of Abercorn, but the Duke felt he should remain in Ulster to complete his second term of office and therefore could not see his way to accept this appointment...
...chief job is that of board chairman, since 1921, of the Sao Paulo (Brazil) Railway. Thus he brings to Canada important contacts "down under," may do as much to get the Dominion-Latin American trade as the "Empire Salesman" is doing on his tour (see p. 20). Darkest Horse Bessborough is in diamonds as deputy board chairman (since 1924) of the South African De Beers Consolidated Mines...