Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted fretfully in his diary, after a 20-minute, opening-of-Parliament speech, that the crown "gave me an awful headache." After Ireland got dominion status, he observed, in the tone of an Alice-in-Wonderland monarch: "It is a bore having to change one's title, but I suppose it is inevitable...
Heaton Nicholls' plan is for a federal South Africa, split int01) a Boer Republic in Transvaal, Orange Free State and part of Cape Province, 2) a British dominion in Natal and the rest of the Cape. Fire-eating veterans of the anti-Malan Torch Commando back Nicholls to the hilt, but the leaders of the Opposition United Party call his scheme "preposterous," and declare that a British attempt at secession might risk a second Boer...
...protested that the Governor General had no right to sack him, and perhaps Nazimuddin had a point. Ghulam Mohammad succeeded to the governor-generalship when Nazimuddin stepped down in 1951. Now that Ghulam Mohammad had the title, however, he was Queen Elizabeth's official representative in the British Dominion of Pakistan and in the theory of British government has the monarch's delegated power to dismiss or appoint ministers and governments (in England, no monarch since the days of George III had dared invoke that power without the sanction of Parliament). Pakistan, however, is a special case: only...
figured heavily in the election. The opposition consisted primarily of those who felt that federation's skimpy safeguards of Negro status are still too much. Proponents of federation argue that the resulting dominion will be large enough to grow and prosper, to the benefit of all of its citizens. Their slogan: "Federate and flourish...
...Knights of Malta are historically men of privilege and resiliency. After their emergence during the 12th century as a crusading order of warrior-clerics, they built up strong dynasties in Palestine, Rhodes and Malta successively; it took Napoleon's army to end their temporal dominion in 1798. For the last century and a half, they have devoted themselves to works of charity. Although most of them are now laymen, the highest degree of the Knights, as always, has been bound by religious vows, and membership in the order, for all except the lowest category, has been restricted...