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...mighty hydroelectric network (TIME, Aug. 5). With no War debt, with a strong, exuberant old people who feel they have made a new start, there is nothing wrong with the Irish Free State, except that.it is not Irish, nor free, nor a state, but has the status of a dominion under George V's Crown...
Canada to Recess. Looking out at the Dominions, The Commercial sees A SHADOW OVER CANADA: Two Crop Failures In Succession, adds: "It is now evident that the trade of the Dominion has received a severe setback [crop failure . . . falling off in production . . . decline in earnings of industry . . . collapse of the stock market], and in place of the lulls which have occurred from time to time in the past six years there will be a definite recession...
Glancing over your article on "Canada's Air Dominion" (TIME, Jan. 27) I notice that you comment that the "Royal Flying Corps had some military schools around Lake Ontario" but that many Canadian airmen train at Kelly Field...
...only two real objections to this magnificent scheme," said Mr. Lloyd George with concentrated sarcasm. "One is that the Dominions will never grant free trade to each other or to England; and the other is that Englishmen will never undertake the erection of a tariff wall against the rest of the world. Otherwise I think the scheme is all right." Two days later in Canberra, Australia, the Dominion Prime Minister, blunt Laborite James Henry Scullin practically echoed the Welshman. "There is no hope," said he, "of getting Australia to agree to allow the goods of every other part...
Hangars are another rarity in the Dominion. Planes are parked out-of-doors. In winter, mechanics build themselves a three-walled shack of lumber or snow, run the nose of the plane in, drape the opening with tarpaulins. An oil stove keeps motors from freezing, the mechanics warm enough to work...