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...would not include the Right of Secession. Therefore he launched his movement for Independence. If South Africa now establishes that all Dominions do and must have the right to secede, then what becomes of Sir John Simon's report and the promises of the Viceroy, both committing Englishmen to the goal of Dominion Status for India? Thus far this mealy-mouthed phrase has been mere pap for Dominions full of local pride but with no real wish to secede - most Canadians will freely deny that they have the right to do so and all Englishmen will agree. Nobody really...
...farmers are the people who vote for Carl Gustaf Ekman and his People's Party. He used to be the village blacksmith of Munktorp in drowsy Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...
...been tremendous. A great funded debt, some of it with large accrued interest, preferred stock in arrears, receivership suits and bank liens have complicated the problem. And added to this has been the rivalry between the steel and coal interests, each fearful of the other. A pleasing coincidence to Englishmen was the fact that strong hands in both England and Canada should simultaneously come to the rescue of so important an industry...
Olympia and Uptown -- "Journey's End". Englishmen dying on the Eastern front...
...period of falsification had been long enough to give U. S. citizens and Englishmen the impression that Mrs. Sarojini ("Death or Victory") Naidu is a particularly funny female joke. Naturally there is a sense in which scrawny St. Gandhi and his whole topsy turvy nonviolent struggle is history's most colossal and perhaps most dangerous jest...