Dictatorship in NewfoundlandThomas Lodge was appointed by the British Government as Public Utilities Commissioner to Newfoundland's Commission of Government in 1934. In this book, Lodge explains the causes of Newfoundland's economic and social troubles which then necessitated creating Commission of Government, and how the Commission worked. He also recommended remedies for the conditions in Newfoundland and ways in which the Commission itself could achieve better success as a government. |
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