Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eden had high hopes that the accords would go through unanimously. Herbert Morrison pledged Labor's official support. The Bevanites, voted down in party caucus before the debate, were under threat of party discipline. Attlee, like Eden, hoped to avoid trouble by avoiding a formal vote in the House...
Konrad Adenauer stood inside the glass-walled caucus room of Bonn's ultramodern Bundeshaus one afternoon last week, white-faced and trembling. Nobody could recall ever seeing him quite so mad before. He had personally hand-picked Eugen Gerstenmaier, 48, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, as the man to succeed the late Hermann Ehlers as Speaker of the Bundestag (Lower House). Gerstenmaier was a Christian Democratic Deputy, a leading Protestant Church official (and thus a politically useful counterweight to the Catholic Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier...
...effect, however, was to stiffen Adenauer's iron determination. Back in the caucus room after the first ballot, he shook his fist at the C.D.U. Deputies and shouted: "Some people in this room, some people in my own party voted against Gerstenmaier. If I find out who they were, they'll take the consequences...
After Nehru, the most powerful man in the India government was pudgy Ran Ahmad Kidwai, 60, Minister of Food and Agriculture. Last week Kidwai created something of a sensation at a Congress Party caucus in Lucknow by taking Nehru up on his recent offer to resign. "I am prepared to assume the office of Prime Minister for six months," said Kidwai. "I will do so well in the job that people may not want Nehru back." He chuckled...
...anti-Evatt motion was placed before a caucus of Labor M.P.s, and at week's end a preliminary roll call showed that more than half of them thought Evatt would have to go. But as chairman of the meeting, Evatt ruled the motion out of order, since no prior notice of the maneuver had been given. At this, a veteran M.P. from the gold fields called from the floor: "Doc, why don't you give the party a chance and resign?" Snapped Evatt: "I'll be damned...