Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revenue Act of 1932 imposed an import tax (tariff) of 10? per cwt. on coal, except from countries against which the U. S. had a favorable trade balance on that commodity. As the U. S. exports more coal to Canada than Canada sends to the U. S., the Dominion was automatically exempt from this tax provision. Last summer importers of British and German coal asked the U. S. to suspend the tax on their shipments. Reason: Britain and Germany have treaties with the U. S. promising them the same commercial treatment in this country as the most favored nation...
Hating some Englishmen and fearing no man, stubborn, elderly Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog of the Union of South Africa has battled mightily to keep his dominion on the gold standard. All other dominions and the Mother Country are off. Ever since sterling slipped, English economists have been favoring South Africa with advice and appeals to "link your pound with sterling." Because Premier Hertzog is Dutch-blooded, Englishmen started a limerick in London which has spread to Capetown...
...care very much If the land goes to Hell And the Empire as well, Provided that Hades is Dutch!" Nearly every week in 1932 Premier Hertzog stoutly restated his viewpoint, often" from public platforms: "While I remain Premier we shall remain on gold!" For a single dominion to take this stand was practical in South Africa's case because her digging blackamoors produce more than half the world's current supply of new gold. In 1931, latest year for which statistics are complete, the world mined $440,518,000 in gold of which South Africa, supplied...
...hard to find much more that the Conference did accomplish. In the name of His Majesty's Government, Sir Samuel, a stalwart Tory, refused to fix a date for the establishment of an Indian Federation (first step toward "dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round...
...amazing roster of Canadian potency for his directorate. With him on the board will sit President Arthur Blaikie Purvis of Canadian Industries, Ltd., "the du Pont of Canada"; Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, foxy Prime Minister of Quebec since 1920; Sir Robert Laird Borden, Wartime Prime Minister of the Dominion and head of Barclay's Bank of Canada; Norman James Dawes, head of National Breweries, Ltd.; Hon. Charles Avery Dunning, a power in the prairie provinces; Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne, head of Sherwin-Williams Co. of Canada (paint); Sir Charles Blair Gordon, president of Bank of Montreal and an officer...