Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stoutly he stood on his early cries of alarm. "Tragic indeed," concluded Winston Churchill, "is the spectacle of the might, majesty, dominion and power of the once magnificent and still considerable British Empire having to worry and wonder how we can pay our monthly bills . . . I am tortured by this thought...
With $655,000 from the Ford and Old Dominion Foundations, Adler will be assisted by 14 full-time scholars. He also intends to call in such notable consultants as Thomist Jacques Maritain and Yale Metaphysician Paul Weiss. Together these men will pluck one topic at a time from the modern Babel, and at the end of each investigation, publish books on it. Their purpose will not be to offer any pat answers. All they can possibly do, says Adler, is to "try to reach agreement on 1) the questions to be answered, 2) the range of possible answers...
Quoting and agreeing with an article in LIFE by John Foster Dulles ("certainly, he is no isolationist"), Taft pointed out that NATO guards only 500 miles of the Soviet dominion's 20,000 miles of frontier with the free world. "In fact, our leaders have become the new isolationists. They would abandon most of Europe and most of Asia to Russia, and adopt a purely defensive policy which has no hope of bringing freedom to millions behind the Iron Curtain...
...Dominion is a "still-picture of Britain in 1874," Griawold said, where tea is served seven times a day and nobody heats his house in the winter even though there is plenty of fuel, just because this is the custom in England...
...Minister Senanayake. Though in 1915 he had been jailed for 40 days by the British, he had become by 1948 their staunch friend and a worthy foe of the Communists. He had led Ceylon's 7,000,000 people to independence without bloodshed, and he became the new dominion's first Prime Minister. Working to end corruption and diminish poverty, he became known as "the Abraham Lincoln of the East...