After her return, ER
put the case to her English constituents for Indian independence and the inclusion of India in the British Commonwealth of Nations
, and emphasised the paramount importance of women's constitutional rights...
Reception
Edith Sitwell
Façade is often played (at least in the form of excerpts) on the radio in several countries. The online Poetry Archive, however, features Still Falls the Rain in a recording masterminded in 1946 by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jan Morris
This time the story begins with Kitchener
's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill
, presented as the last imperialist. In it JM
appeals to her own...
Timeline
15 March 1961: Following a referendum in South Africa the...
National or international item
15 March 1961
Following a referendum in South Africa the previous October and the Commonwealth Conference vote condemning apartheid, Heinrich Verwoerd
formally withdrew South Africa from the British Commonwealth
.
South African History online. 30 Mar. 2005, http://www.sahistory.org.za/.