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What Statesman Law calls "Commonwealth" practically all Britons call, without shame, "Empire." Colloquially, the Empire includes: 1) the Dominions of the Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Eire); 2) the colonies and protectorates (Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, etc.); 3) India-the only realm of which George VI is actually Emperor. Total population: 557,000,000. (The world's population...
...George VI ... Emperor. . . ." therefore embodies a hope and a prospect which is all-important to Britons, important to all the world. War has at once tightened and loosened the bonds of Empire. Sovereign, national aims conflict in Canada with a never-dying tie to Britain. Aspirations both regional and national stir New Zealand and Australia. South Africa's great Prime Minister, Field Marshal and Elder Statesman Jan Christiaan Smuts, feels grave responsibility both for Imperial Britain and for the independent integrity of his own country. India, the jewel of Empire, strains away from Empire, yet gives (or sells...
Nero's buried villa at Anzio was explored in jigtime last week. U.S. Army officers had heard that the Emperor had built an aqueduct from his Anzio villa to Rome, 30 miles away. It might be a way to get behind the German lines...
German High Sea Fleet had mutinied when ordered to sea, into Berlin, where Karl Liebknecht had unfurled the red flag from the German Emperor's palace, down the Danube to Hungary, where gangs of Communist "Lenin boys" had killed a thousand citizens in three weeks, the solemn news of the victory that was really, defeat came through House's spies to the Conference. The dead still lay in the houses of Belgrade that the Austrians had shelled into ruins. Bonsal had walked un moved over the battlefields at Verdun, where many of the corpses were still unburied, "with...
...years have India's Brahman priests gathered to perform this mahayajna (great sacrifice) for the purification of the world. Last time: after the 17th-Century Mohammedan Emperor Aurangzeb slaughtered thousands of Hindus. Then the priests gathered at Benares, recited 10,000,000 prayers...