Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason, to keep Mr. Wallace [then Secretary of Commerce] . . . from speaking on foreign affairs ... if it is not completely clear in your own mind that Mr. Wallace should be asked to refrain from criticizing the foreign policy of the United States while he is a member of your Cabinet, I must ask you to accept my resignation...
...being changed at Buckingham Palace last week as Prime Minister Attlee drove through the wrought-iron gates. Attlee had come to tell the King, in an hour's audience, what members of Labor's Old Guard he was firing, what new recruits he was bringing into his Cabinet, in the biggest reshuffle since the Socialists came to power...
Shinwell is chairman of the Labor Party, however, and Attlee did not leave him out in the cold entirely. He was made Secretary of State for War, which is not a Cabinet job and where high-level strategy and policy decisions will be made over his head. The red-tabbed generals are sure to dislike Manny, but last week this crack was going the rounds: "When he was at the Ministry of Fuel & Power, we had no fuel or power; now that he's at the War Office perhaps we'll have...
When Chile elected González President last year, Communist votes gave him the margin of victory. To show his gratitude, he named three Communists to Cabinet posts. But middle-of-the-road González soon tired of playing footie with the Reds. When Communists took potshots at his administration, he angrily shouted: "The Communists cannot separate me from the people," accused them of treachery, threw them out of the Government...
They prepared 35 basic questions to ask in each country (sample: What Cabinet posts are held by Communists?). Then they set off, by plane and train, to search for the answers...