Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...escort?" Next day, the royal plane set down at Jamaica's tourist-fringed Montego Bay. The Queen was presented by Jamaica's Chief Minister William Alexander Bustamante with a hand-printed address of welcome, containing a wishful hint at the old dream of a West Indian dominion. A day later, Elizabeth noncommittally advised the island's legislators to "build on the principles of parliamentary government." The royal couple had driven 120 miles, in blistering heat, across the island to Kingston, pausing along the way for a quick dip in the Caribbean. Visibly wilted, the Queen could muster...
...Ceylon, two nationalist M.P.s got up a petition asking the Queen not to visit that dominion on the ground that her visit would be too expensive. In the British Parliament, Bevanite and near-Bevan-ite Socialists were once again raising the cry that royalty was too costly ($1,700,000 a year) and too undemocratic. A Socialist scolded the Queen for maintaining a private enclosure for the horse races at Ascot; a Methodist minister scolded her for going to races at all ("They are full of racketeers"). The same outraged Methodist berated the Duke of Edinburgh for playing polo...
...Mounted Policeman who had just taken his post by the door. Then, with a friendly wave to the crowd, he retreated to the warmth of his private car. A few moments later the presidential train crossed the border and President Eisenhower began his two-day state visit to the Dominion...
...state visit to Canada this week, gave executive permission to New York State to join with the Dominion in building the $600 million St. Lawrence River power project...
...banks of the Zambesi River in Central Africa. Britain is trying to build a strong new dominion, rich in metals and farmlands, and able to protect itself from the black nationalism of the Gold Coast and the white nationalism of South Africa. Last week, barely half a year since the House of Commons gave the ambitious project its blessing, the Central African Federation was jarred by racial unrest among black man, Boer and Briton. 69,000 Boers. Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, the wiry little surgeon who first conceived the notion of lumping the Rhodesias and Nyasaland into one big Central...