Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suez crisis, after failing to persuade Nasser to accept international control of the canal, Menzies lined Australia behind Sir Anthony Eden's invasion. He did so against the will of former Australian Foreign Minister Richard Casey,-and only New Zealand in the rest of the Commonwealth sided with Britain...
...Commonwealth of Kentucky, though it ranks among the states lowest in income and industry, employment and education, has long stood at the very top in the successful use of its political patronage system. To build up the power of incumbent Democratic administrations, Kentucky's 23,000 state employees for years were required to "contribute" 2% of their salaries to campaign war chests. Under loudmouthed Governor (1935-39 and 1955-59) Albert ("Happy") Chandler, eight $7,200-a-year highway commissioners traveled Kentucky's highways and byways dispensing jobs and rounding up votes; so many weed cutters were hired...
...Buddhist Tibet, soundly trounced Ceylon's motley leftist parties, which range from doctrinaire Marxists and Trotsky partisans to avowed Communists. But the conservatives split their majority between two parties: the United National Party, which ruled for eight years after negotiating Ceylon's independence within the British Commonwealth in 1948, and the Freedom Party of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgway Dias Bandaranaike, who governed from 1956 until his assassination last September. In last week's election, the United Nationalists leaped from eight to 50 seats. But the Freedom Party, without a leader of stature, worked...
...Roman Catholic bishop in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico last week jumped broadly into the statehood v. commonwealth debate. In a letter to the New York Times, James McManus, the Brooklyn-born Bishop of Ponce, charged that Muñoz Marín, by saying repeatedly that Puerto Rico is "a proud, free, self-governing commonwealth, joined to the U.S. by her own choice," is eloquently ignoring the hard historical fact. The 1952 law that established the commonwealth, McManus pointed out, did not free Puerto Rico, but merely changed it from a "nonautonomous territory" to an "autonomous territory." In fact, said...
...major issue of the campaign, commonwealth v. statehood, Ike was less helpful. Though Ferré argued hard on the trip for a Republican plank endorsing statehood, Eisenhower replied: "I think you'd have a better chance, Luis, if you could give the platform committee some indication of public opinion on statehood in Puerto Rico." Ferré found that Republican leaders in Washington generally favor keeping some form of the 1956 plank, endorsing the "fundamental principle of self-determination" of the Puerto Rican people. In his political campaign, Ferré will try to prove that self-determination means statehood sooner...