Word: callaghans
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Minister James Callaghan. Labor's former Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart went so far as to say that "there can be no solution of this problem except in the context of a united Ireland." The Conservative government, however, is in no mood to tinker with the existing setup. Ulster's Unionists, after all, have provided the Tories with at least nine or ten seats in the British Parliament (out of twelve for Northern Ireland) ever since 1921, and the Tories do not want to antagonize them...
...well as politically and militarily, the days of unchallenged U.S. dominance of the non-Communist world are over. A natural corollary of that development is that the monetary structure should be redesigned to reflect the new reality, and some Europeans did indeed draw that conclusion last week. James Callaghan, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, for one, in effect called for a second Bretton Woods conference "to build a new system...
...rare moment of enthusiasm for Europe and Britain's possible role in the Common Market, the Labor government decided to go decimal. Both the pound and the penny would be preserved. "It would be a matter of regret," said then Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, "if such expressions as 'Pennywise, pound-foolish' and 'Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves' were to lose their meaning." But instead of 240 pennies, the pound would consist of 100 new pennies...
...that point last week as a result of his handling of the "Red" Rudi Dutschke case. Shortly after Dutschke was shot in the head by a right-wing assassin in West Berlin nearly three years ago, the fiery radical student leader was granted permission to recuperate in Britain. James Callaghan, then Home Secretary in Harold Wilson's Labor government, imposed one condition-that Dutschke refrain from any political activity. Suffering from partial blindness and frequent epileptic attacks, Dutschke settled in Cambridge with his American wife and two small children. After Labor's defeat in last June...
During a three-hour debate on the matter in the House of Commons, Callaghan argued that Dutschke had not gone back on his commitment. "Dutschke's views may be repugnant, but it would have been more in keeping with our traditions to have let him stay," declared Callaghan. "We are betraying democracy if we behave, as the government are doing, with all the reactions of a nervous and frightened tabby pussycat." But the ruling Conservatives supported Maudling in what Callaghan called "this miserable little case" by a vote of 295 to 237, confirming that Dutschke and his family must...