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...much about their Empire, and do not now. They do care, and they simply don't believe it when they read that they are losing the Empire. They don't mean the technical empire of India, Burma, the Colonies. By "empire" they mean South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada-the Commonwealth. That is the "empire" that matters to them, and a good many of them see Britain's future in it. Some of them even think they can somehow transfer much of their home island's population, energy and talents to the Dominions without diminishing...
...gusty Dominion daughters gave Mother Britain a wonderful surprise last week. Australia's Labor Parliament approved an outright gift of 25,000,000 Australian pounds ($80,250,000) to the United Kingdom. Next day small sister New Zealand announced a gift of 12,500,000 New Zealand pounds.* Both girls felt they ought to help Mother in her financial pinch; and besides, they owed a lot to her for help...
Critics still claimed that the desirability of outlawing war did not mean that it had in fact been outlawed at the time the accused planned war. Many of the nations on the tribunal had had such doubts. Britain, Australia and New Zealand (related Keenan) had at first wanted to conduct the trial on the narrow grounds that Japan had violated the rules of civilized warfare, while the U.S. and Canada clung to the Nürnberg view that aggressive war was itself a crime. Pragmatic ex-Gangbuster Keenan somewhat naively quoted Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged...
...shores of the Pacific: Peru, the Aleutians, Japan. Hasty guessers have therefore concluded that a wave of seismic shakes is burrowing molelike, and counterclockwise, around the Pacific. Having passed the Philippines, quivers and brimstone ought to strike the East Indies next, then the New Guinea region, then New Zealand, and back to Chile and Peru...
...guessed what social force (the lash or superstition) called forth so mighty an effort, or what happened to the people who built Fortress Nanmatol. Director Peter H. Buck of Honolulu's Bishop Museum (whose mother was a New Zealand Maori) hopes the U.S. will clear up Japan's neglected mystery and retell the tale of the daring, industrious primitives who sailed the Pacific sea reaches millenniums...