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...David Murray Anderson. In his battling youth Sir David bombarded Afrikanders to Queen Victoria's taste, later commanded the royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert to King Edward's satisfaction, became personal aide-de-camp to King George and is now His Majesty's Governor of Newfoundland. One day last week both houses of the Newfoundland Parliament passed and sent to Sir David an historic resolution which compressed into a single rumbling, mealy-mouthed sentence the whole Empire formula of turning Newfoundland back from self-government at St. John's to government from London (TIME...
Sensitive about the fact that they were never quite a ''dominion,'' the legislators of St. John's referred to Newfoundland as an '"island" in the Great Sentence of their resolution. Text...
...lesser measure is possible, Lord Amulree insisted, pointing to the Report finding that Newfoundland's Government "is in imminent danger of financial collapse due to reckless waste and extravagance...
...Newfoundlanders have called themselves a "Dominion" so often that the habit of thinking of them as such has spread throughout the Empire and the World. In law, however, Newfoundland is still a colony, even though a self-governing one. Taking full advantage of this fact the Amulree Report proposed that Newfoundland's Government revert under the Crown to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, which took over in an emergency last month the Government of Malta (TIME...
Malta was taken over to squelch the pro-Italian Government its islanders had elected. Patriotic Britons highly approved of that. But the British taxpayer winced when it appeared last week that he must guarantee the debts of thoroughly insolvent Newfoundland. As Newfoundland bonds bounded up on the news, Britain's famed Manchester Guardian, its excited editors ignoring Newfoundland's non-dominion status, asked: "Is this claim to suppress the Dominion constitution in order to avoid default on external debt payments to be confined to Newfoundland? If so, on what peculiar theory of Empire relationships is the claim based...