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...Adopted by a vote of 227 to 38 the fiscal clauses of the deal whereby Newfoundland is reverting from self-government to the status of a Crown colony ruled from London (TIME...
...London the House of Commons was believed ready to shoulder the British taxpayer with Newfoundland's public debt of $101,000,000, to give the island proper British rule under the Crown and root out Newfoundland corruption...
...King's most excellent majesty and most gracious sovereign, we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects in the Legislative Council and Assembly of Newfoundland, humbly approach Your Majesty praying that whereas in the present emergency Your Majesty's island of Newfoundland is unable from its own resources to defray the interest charge son the public debt and whereas the Royal Commission appointed by Your Majesty's warrant bearing the date of the seventeenth day of February 1933 to examine into the future of Newfoundland, has recommended that for the time being and until such...
Under the new set-up Crown Crony Sir David Murray Anderson becomes virtually viceroy of Newfoundland. On the advice of the MacDonald Government in London, he will appoint a Newfoundland Commission Government consisting of three commissioners from the United Kingdom, three from Newfoundland...
...starry April night in 1912 Robert Hitchens stood at the wheel of the Titanic, world's biggest, newest, fastest ocean liner, guiding her at full speed on her maiden voyage through the Newfoundland ice fields. Suddenly above the far-off music of the ship's orchestra, Helmsman Hitchens felt a scrape of ice on steel. Three hours later the S. S. Titanic slid to the bottom. Helmsman Hitchens was one of some 300 men who with about 400 women and children got away in lifeboats from the greatest marine disaster in history...