Word: australians
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...make His Majesty do it-such was the Empire scandal in London last week. As for Sir Isaac Isaacs, he, apart from being a brilliant lawyer and an able politician, is ideally fitted to receive viceregal honors by the dignity of his present office: Chief Justice of the Australian High Court. Born the son of an humble Australian tailor, Sir Isaac will be the first "native" representative of the Crown in a Dominion. The Thunderer. Other London newspapers did not receive the Royal plaint. There was no "hand out" to the press. Alone "The Thunderer" (the London Times} spoke...
Cheers for Scullin. Announcement of the Scullin-Isaacs coup to the Australian House of Representatives last week was greeted with cheer on cheer. In the Parliamentary lobbies close friends of Mr. Scullin told of his verbal tussle, face to face with George V. The right of Australia (under the Imperial Conference decision of 1926) to dictate who shall be her Governor General naturally was not questioned by His Majesty. But the monarch sought to win Mr. Scullin over by expressing himself as "more than willing to do Australia the greatest conceivable honor," by sending out as Governor General...
While George V bowed in humiliation to the will of Australia's Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (see p. 17) one of His Majesty's representatives in the Australian state of New South Wales stoutly defied the local Premier of that State, Laborite J. T. Lang...
...anchor in the South Pacific lay the little Australian destroyer Torrens last week. Three-quarters of a mile away Australia's two capital ships, the 10,000-ton cruisers Australia and Canberra, steamed in line of battle, decks cleared for action. Gunnery officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried...
...Minister James Henry Scullin was faced with a crisis (on repudiation of national debts) in Australia, which threatened to disrupt his Labor Party. Telephone officials proudly revealed last week that Prime Minister Scullin met his crisis by spending an average of $150 daily telephoning 11,000 mi. to his Australian henchmen...