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...responsibility to London and the Empire as a whole. Even in the midst of World War II the Dominions put autonomy first, a share in Empire affairs second. South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts raised not a whisper to aid Prime Minister Curtin; New Zealand's Peter Fraser tended to go along with London and Winston Churchill, did as little as a near neighbor could do to support Australia. Of all the Dominions, Canada had long been the most aggressive in her demands for autonomy within the Commonwealth. Her Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King stoutly stood with...
...British had heavily reinforced Rangoon with British and Indian troops of all arms and services. In Bangkok, capital of little Thailand, tension was drumhead-tight in the place that might be the Belgium of a Far East war. The British attitude, as broadcast by Aberdeen Economist Lindley Macnaghten Fraser this week: "If the Japanese regard the present moment as appropriate for a tremendous act of national harakiri, we in the British Empire will cooperate without limit...
Prime Minister Peter Fraser brought the stew back to a simmer last week, postponed the elections for a year "on account of the war situation...
...Cecil E. Fraser, Cambridge, Mass., Associate Professor of Business Administration...
...London Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies to postpone his trip to the U.S. and remain for a conference of Dominion leaders: New Zealand's Prime Minister Peter Fraser, on his way to London, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King, if they could leave their problems at home. The long-awaited Axis drive against the bastions of British sea power, the drive to capture the subject countries of the British Empire and to isolate the English-speaking ones, had begun in earnest...