Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February 10th, a motion opposing any transfer of British Colonies was presented to the House of Commons by a group of Conservatives. It declared "that this house vigorously opposes the transfer into any other hands of British Colonies or British Mandated Territories, for the welfare, protection and enlightened government of whose peoples the British nation holds an honorable and inalienable trust...
Historians in the future may very well cite this motion as one of the first official notices taken of the growing idea of colonial transfers. To be sure the motion is one of opposition but the very fact that such a proposal should even be introduced into the House of Commons shows that some individuals in authority have at last realized that peace can only be obtained through more equal territorial adjustments. Twenty years ago it would have been political suicide for any Government official even to speak of colonial transfers as a possibility...
Illustrating his talk with slides and motion pictures, Captain Albert W. Stevens will lecture this evening at eight o'clock on "Explorations in the Stratosphere." The lecture will be held at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Divinity Avenue...
...Motion carried," said Speaker Byrns. "The House stands adjourned...
...state. Aboard the U. S. Army transport Republic, the coffin was to be carried to Cristobal, C. Z., transferred to the Belgian schoolship Mercator, taken on to Antwerp. In Belgium the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary, Father Damien's order, have already set in motion the long, deliberate machinery by which the Roman Catholic Church canonizes saints. So insistent were pious Belgians, so sure that the presence of Father Damien's dust in a proper shrine might work wonders, that King Leopold III personally wrote President Roosevelt last autumn, secured the U. S. Government...