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Three generations of Canadians were proud of the word "Dominion." In 1926 Prime Minister King accepted it in the Imperial Conference's definition of Canada's nationhood.* Of late there have been rumbles. (A bill to change "Dominion Day" to "Canada Day" passed the House two years ago...
A New History. Both made contributions-local studies and biographies-to that vast unread library of India which hundreds of Englishmen, have written for two centuries. As the years passed, they noted that a new Indian history was growing under their eyes. The slapdash, casual rule of the old East...
To them, "customs union" means tearing down the tariff wall along the border and erecting a uniform wall around North America. Because the U.S. has 18 times as much economic power as the Dominion, Canadians realize that it would be a U.S. wall. It would probably shut off the Dominion...
The U.S.S.R. made major note of a minor mishap to the late Maxim Gorky. The weekly Literary Gazette recalled that in 1906 Traveler Gorky was thrown out of a Manhattan hotel when the Imperial Russian Embassy announced that his woman companion was not his wife. Furthermore, the Gazette snarled, his...
Died. Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, 81, onetime Chief of the British Imperial General Staff (1926-33); after long illness; in London. A veteran of Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan and a general officer since 1913, doughty old "Uncle George" served...