Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...London in August, or at the latest by the middle of September. And had not he always been right about his military dates? Was it not certain that England was going to be conquered and that with Hitler's crossing of the Channel the end of the British Commonwealth would come...
...Commonwealth of Nations as the Man of the Year...
...detail and more of broad consideration. Executive authority belongs with the executive, while powers of appropriation, of general policy determination, of overall inspection and supervision are within the hands of the legislative. They might be more effectively exercised to provide more effective position of the legislative in the commonwealth...
Speaking for the Student Defense League before a gathering of 65 people in Emerson D. Casey emphasized the fact that "the British Commonwealth of Nations does not need American manpower to win the present conflict, so long as the United States furnishes aircraft, tanks, and other necessary war equipment." However, Casey stressed the indispensability of this material aid from the United States, and indicated that increased aid along these lines is sorely needed...
Without an instant's hesitation, out of the line of defenseless freighters and straight for the death-laden steel-clad swerved the 14,164-ton armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay, a hardy old packet of the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line which used to take freight and poor emigrants from Britain out to Australia. She had just six 6-inch guns and no armor plate over her ribs. Her commander was an Irish admiral's middle-aged son named Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan. He had promised his men that if ever they met the enemy they would face...