Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week he called for abolition of capitalism, for the propagation of Marxism and friendship with Russia. Said Winston Churchill when he heard the news: Burma is "descending into a state of anarchy tempered by Communism." Later, assured that no outright Communists would be included in Burma's cabinet, the former "thakins" (masters) in London relaxed, but not much...
Last week the strategic, oil-rich realm of the Shah of Shahs, 29-year-old Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, had no government. The cabinet of deaf* old Ibrahim Hakimi had fallen two weeks before. Abdul Hussein Hajir (who has one glass eye) was named to succeed him. But last week a Teheran mob kept the Majlis from meeting to approve Hajir's cabinet. Said one English-speaking Persian politician: "There's an old proverb that 'a year can be judged by its spring.' Well, it looks as though there's going to be an early fall...
Last week the waiting was over, but some of the hysteria lingered on. Established at last in the official Capetown residence Groote Schuur (Big Barn), bequeathed in his will to South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime...
...counter-deals mounted, Duff summoned a press conference in Harrisburg. Said he flatly: "I have been saying for a solid year that I am not a candidate for anything and I'm not going to be. It has been suggested that I am anxious to be a Cabinet member in the next Administration. I do not expect to be. I will not be-and that is without reservation or qualification...
...last week 258 showed up to listen, speak and be counted. In the debate, some of them displayed a lively concern over an issue deeper than steel or immediate programs. Old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood cried that the Parliament Bill was leading straight to an "oligarchy" of the cabinet. Sweeping the chamber with a steely glare, he said: "I shall be told, perhaps, that this does not matter because the cabinet obtain their power from the electorate . . . Hitler made a precisely similar claim . . ." Vigorous Lord Salisbury thundered in agreement: "It is the rights and liberties of the British people which...